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Book SynopsisDespite the growing awareness of globalization, the main bulk of empirical work in the social sciences remains within the frames of what Stein Rokkan termed "national empiricism". The yearbook Comparative Social Research aims at furthering the international orientation in the social sciences.
Table of ContentsList of contributors. Introduction (R. Kalleberg). Learning academic labor (P.J. Gumport). Early and late adoption of knowledge products: strategic or institutional behavior? (J. Huisman, E. Beerkens). The specificity of American higher education (C. Calhoun). Analyzing organisational change in higher education (A. Gornitzka, P. Maassen). Policy regimes and policy change. Comparing higher education reform policy in three European countries (I. Bleiklie). Governmental steering and innovations in university curricula (I. Jenniskens). Pushing universities to market their product: redefinitions of academic activities in Finland (M. Hayrinen-Alestalo et al.).
