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In the following analysis we focus on those national factors that we expect to condition the degree of cross-national policy convergence triggered by transnational communication. Precisely we concentrate on general and policy-specific cultural, political-institutional, and socio-economic factors as well as student mobility data. As depicted in Figure 7.1, we assume that transnational communication in the realm of the Bologna Process causes convergence in study structures and quality assurance mechanisms. Our analysis does not aim to investigate the causal effects of transnational communication, but to identify those national factors which condition the magnitude of the causal effect.
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© 2014 Eva Maria Vögtle
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Vögtle, E.M. (2014). Analysis of Causal and Conditioning Factors. In: Higher Education Policy Convergence and the Bologna Process. Transformations of the State. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137412799_7
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