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de Boer, H.F., Enders, J., Schimank, U. (2008). Comparing Higher Education Governance Systems in Four European Countries. In: Soguel, N.C., Jaccard, P. (eds) Governance and Performance of Education Systems. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6446-3_3

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