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http://dspace.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/123456789/6129| Title: | Two Worlds of Europeanisation Unpacking Models of Government Innovation and Transgovernmental Imitation |
| Keywords: | educational policy EEA-agreement European Commission Europeanization governance leadership network approach Norway OECD organization theory RTD policy sovereignty UNESCO political science |
| Issue Date: | 30-May-2013 |
| Publisher: | ECSA-Austria |
| Description: | Whereas domestic public policy is increasingly penetrated by international organisations, domestic government institutions seem less adaptive. This puzzle triggers the following question: To what extent is the Europeanisation of domestic Research and Higher Educational policy (R&E policy) crafted by domestic government? Put more starkly, how intimate relationships exist between domestic government decision-making and domestic policy? The rationale of this article is to unpack two supplementary models of Europeanisation. First, a model of 'Europeanisation by innovation' derived from an organisation theory perspective emphasises a tight coupling of ministerial decision-making and R&E policy. Secondly, a model of 'Europeanisation by imitation' derived from a network approach advocates a loose coupling of government decision-making and R&E policy through transgovernmental processes of imitation. Reporting from the area of R&E policy and based on survey data on civil servants in the Norwegian Ministry of Research and Education (MRE) (N = 190), this study indicates that Norwegian R&E policy has become Europeanised whilst the decision-making processes of MRE has become only moderately Europeanised. The analysis merely indicates a partial de-coupling of MRE decision-making and the Europeanisation of R&E policy. The Europeanisation of Norwegian R&E policy seems only partly steered and forged by the domestic top ministerial leadership, and partly affected by the import of policy models from international governmental organisations. |
| URI: | http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/jspui/handle/123456789/6129 |
| Other Identifiers: | http://eiop.or.at/eiop/texte/2005-001.htm http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=openurl&genre=article&issn=10275193&date=2005&volume=9&issue=&spage=1 |
| Appears in Collections: | Law and Political Science |
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