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Policy-Borrowing And Globalization Challenging French Universities In The 21st Century, Charlotte Stroumza
Policy-Borrowing And Globalization Challenging French Universities In The 21st Century, Charlotte Stroumza
Master's Theses
French universities are currently undergoing an overhaul and, in my thesis, I analyze the 2007 Loi relative aux Libertés et Responsabilités des Universités (LRU), or law that makes universities autonomous, as a policy borrowed from the United States. This thesis attempted to analyze the process of policy borrowing using Phillips and Ochs' method. It also considered the role that the Bologna Process and globalization may have played in the creation of the LRU. The conclusion is that the LRU is the result of three phenomena: policy-borrowing from the United States; pressures from international and regional agencies; the individual understanding of …