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Transformation Through Layering(s)?

The case of Researcher Mobility in the Construction of the European Research area

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Effects of Higher Education Reforms

Part of the book series: Higher Education Research in the 21st Century Series ((CHER,volume 4))

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Casting the minimal progress of European Union (EU) research policy cooperation since the 1960s as a puzzle, Banchoff (2002) argues that there are three paths of institutional resistance: normative, formal rule-based, and in practice. To start, he contributes the reluctance of national authorities to cede competence to the European-level as explanatory for the lack of successful reform. Continuing, and building on new institutionalist insights, Banchoff maintains that the implementation of successive Framework Programmes (FPs) since the mid-1980s generated an institutional inertia hindering possible changes. He singles out the FPs’ main beneficiaries as particularly resistant against altering the function of European research policy from being a distributive mechanism (funding) to a coordinative one (policy). Concluding his analysis with the then European Research Area (ERA) initiative, Banchoff projects that its ‘concrete shape’ would likely embody the change-resistant features associated with this sector.

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  1. ARENA – Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

    Meng-Hsuan Chou

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  1. University of Oslo, Norway

    Martina Vukasović

  2. University of Oslo, Norway

    Peter Maassen

  3. University of Oslo, Norway

    Monika Nerland

  4. University of Oslo, Norway

    Bjørn Stensaker

  5. Centre for Advanced Studies in Regional Innovation Systems, University of Oslo & Agderforskning, Norway

    Rómulo Pinheiro

  6. Nordic Institute for Studies in Innovation, Oslo, Norway

    Agnete Vabø

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Chou, MH. (2012). Transformation Through Layering(s)?. In: Vukasović, M., Maassen, P., Nerland, M., Stensaker, B., Pinheiro, R., Vabø, A. (eds) Effects of Higher Education Reforms. Higher Education Research in the 21st Century Series, vol 4. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-016-3_5

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