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The Bologna Process as a template for transnational policy coordination

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  • Eva Maria Vögtle
  • Kerstin Martens

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The Bologna Process (BP) presents the largest ongoing reform initiative in higher education (HE). Although it has triggered large-scale changes in HE structures in Europe, comparative analysis about its impact on other regions of the world is scarce. Using transnational communication and sociological institutionalism as a theoretical framework, this article investigates the impact of the BP on the Asia-Pacific region, Latin America and the Caribbean [LAC] and (parts of) Africa. Our results demonstrate that not only the policies promoted in the realm of the BP, especially in the field of study structures, have been copied by non-European HE institutions, but also its governance modes for managing transnational HE reform initiatives. Thus, the BP can be regarded as a template for transnational HE harmonization processes in the absence of legal obligation.

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  • Eva Maria Vögtle & Kerstin Martens, 2014. "The Bologna Process as a template for transnational policy coordination," Policy Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 35(3), pages 246-263, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:cposxx:v:35:y:2014:i:3:p:246-263
    DOI: 10.1080/01442872.2013.875147
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