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V. Foreign Higher Education and Education Systems, International Relations, Bilateral Relations
B. Essays, Commentaries, Statements
Author PARSONS, Michael D.
Title Power reconstructed : reclaiming the foundations of power
Publication year 2005
Source/Footnote In: Higher education policy. - 18 (2005) 2, S. 131 - 144
Inventory number 19212
Keywords Ausland : USA : Hochschulwesen allgemein ; Ausland : USA : allgemein ; Hochschule und Staat : allgemein
Abstract The purpose of this article is to attempt to reclaim the concept of foundations of power as a framework of analysis and as an approach to influencing policy. The first section briefly re-examines the policy area that developed in the late 20th century United States and suggests that it was an illusion based on a small area of consensus and a large supply of federal funds. The next section questions the ability to find a new consensus. The policy arena of the previous century has fragmented into multiple sites that make a new common foundation difficult, if not impossible, to achieve. The last section considers postmodernism as a heuristic device for understanding and influencing public policy. In doing so it is possible to reconstruct the concept of the foundations of power. (HRK / Abstract übernommen)