Changing higher education and welfare states in postcommunist Central Europe: New contexts leading to new typologies?

• Authors: Marek Kwiek
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The paper links higher education reforms and welfare states reforms in postcommunist Central European countries. It links current higher education debates (and reform pressures) and public sector debates (and reform pressures), stressing the importance of communist-era legacies in both areas. It refers to existing typologies of both higher education governance and welfare state regimes and concludes that the lack of the inclusion of Central Europe in any of them is a serious theoretical drawback in comparative social research. The region should still, after more than two decades of transition and heavy international policy advising, be viewed as a “laboratory of social experimentation”. It is still too risky to suggest generalizations about how Central European higher education and welfare systems fit existing typologies. Consequently, the “transition” period is by no means over: it is over in terms of politics and economics but not in terms of social arrangements. Both higher education and welfare states should be viewed as “work in progress”: permanently under reform pressures, and with unclear future.

Keywords

EN

Central Europe; globalization and welfare reforms; higher education reforms; international policy-making; university governance

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Human Affairs
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 24
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 48-67

Dates

published

2014-01-01

online

2013-12-27

Contributors

author

Marek Kwiek

• University of Poznan

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DOI

10.2478/s13374-014-0205-1