The limits of mediation... "Open" policy-making procedure, interest politics and higher education policy: the case of the working group of 1980
Abstract
This paper examines a ‘reform case’ concerning Greek Higher Education (HE) that took place in 1980. In fact, it deals with the effort of a Task Force, coordinated by professor Mihalis Stathopoulos, to respond to the broader quest for University reform in Greece. This quest was a focal point of the political discourse during the first years of the 3rd Greek Democracy and aimed at the modernization and democratization of Higher Education Institutes.
Emphasis is placed on the participation of representatives of all the main interest groups in the aforementioned Task Force. This broad representation in a HE policy planning- procedure is rather unique in the Greek case.
The article makes an attempt to analyze (a) the participants’ perceptions concerning Higher Education; (b) the main dimensions, perspectives and the content itself of the proposed Draft Law (that focused on all the crucial aspects of HE); and (c) the role of the interest politics in the formation of the above-mentioned proposal. It also attempts to contextualize this ‘reform episode’ and determine why this (remarkable) consensus collapsed and the proposed Draft Law was never enacted.
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Παπαδάκης Ν., & Ζιρπιάδου Ε. (2015). The limits of mediation. "Open" policy-making procedure, interest politics and higher education policy: the case of the working group of 1980. Science and Society: Journal of Political and Moral Theory, 13, 19–48. https://doi.org/10.12681/sas.576
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