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State and Market in Higher Education

Genealogy and Insufficiencies of A Conceptual Dichotomy

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The pairing of the state and the market has permeated the social sciences, public policy, and the public imagination for almost a generation, seeping into higher education policy around the world. Its specter is present in discussions in which the state and market are not even mentioned directly, often as an indisputable but implicit set of assumptions. The first aim of this chapter is to describe the conceptual genealogy of the state/market dichotomy in a summary and selective fashion. Next, it will examine the principal changes that the Mexican system of higher education has undergone, primarily in light of the lessons of neoinstitutionalism. The exploration will continue with a treatment of the persistence of certain paradoxes and contradictions in Mexican higher education policy. Finally, it will attempt to explain these paradoxes with a critique of the state/market dichotomy.

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  1. The University of British Columbia, Canada

    Hans G. Schuetze

  2. Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados, Mexico

    Germán Álvarez Mendiola

  3. Athabasca University, Canada

    Diane Conrad (Associate editor) (Associate editor)

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Kent, R. (2012). State and Market in Higher Education. In: Schuetze, H.G., Mendiola, G.Á., Conrad, D. (eds) State and Market in Higher Education Reforms. Comparative and International Education, vol 13. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-800-1_3

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