Political Economy of Public Higher Education Policy Reform: the Case of Russia
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Becoming a democracy and having a market driven economy seem to be the goals of virtually every country in the world nowadays. The market system has led to a higher standard of living for more people than any other economic system yet invented. Similarly, democracy has brought the freedom to enjoy that standard of living to billions of people. The recent years have witnessed the transition from an ideologically distorted and overwhelmingly administrative government management to a predominantly democratic society and market-oriented economy with government regulation. However, a decade of reform experience in central and eastern European countries attests that it is extremely difficult to simultaneously build a democratic society and market driven economy. This paper is not an attempt to explore a broad array of complex tensions between the two. Its purpose is to shed some light on the relationship between an emerging academic capitalism and an equally nascent academic democracy and to elaborate on the role of the government in higher education provision and production.
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