Government, Policy, and Ideology analyzes the transformation of the university systems of England and Japan from the early 1980s, with particular reference to the changing modalities of university autonomy and the power relationships between central authorities, the universities, and the market. The analysis compares the various policy positions of the relevant stakeholders in the two countries, highlighting the ideologies of neo-liberalism, university autonomy, and new managerialism. These ideologies coexist in both the English and the Japanese university systems. However, the interpretations of these ideologies made by stakeholders, the patterns of the interrelations between them, and their contextualization as elements in the policy and stance of each stakeholder differ between England and Japan. The book argues that convergence between the English and Japanese university systems is, to a large extent, explained in the transformation of the university system in England during the 1980s, and the continuity of the Ministerial jurisdictional mechanism in Japan.

By Keiko Yokoyama

Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 Introduction
Part 3 Part I: Policy Change and Reforms
Chapter 4 1. The Leading Players in Japanese Universities
Chapter 5 2. Stakeholders in Japanese Universities
Chapter 6 3. The Leading Players in English Universities
Chapter 7 4. Stakeholders in English Universities
Part 8 Part II: Change in Coordination
Chapter 9 5. The Established Order
Chapter 10 6. The Forging of a New Model
Chapter 11 7. The New Landscape of the Universities
Part 12 Part III: Explanation
Chapter 13 8. The Power of Ideology
Chapter 14 9. University Autonomy: An Idea Adapting
Part 15 Part IV: Comparison
Chapter 16 10. Convergent Trends, Persisting Diversity
Chapter 17 11. Ideology, Government, and the Mutating Universities
Chapter 18 Notes
Chapter 19 Abbreviations
Chapter 20 Glossary
Chapter 21 References
Chapter 22 Index
Chapter 23 Author's Biography