TY  - JOUR
TI  - Reforming European Universities: The Welfare State as a Missing Context
T2  - Educational Studies Moscow
IS  - Educational Studies Moscow
KW  - welfare state reforms
KW  - higher education reforms
KW  - intergenerational conflicts
KW  - public resources
KW  - global agenda-setting
KW  - aging of European societies
AB  - Marek Kwiek - Professor, University of Poznan, Poland; Director, Center for Public Policy Studies; Chairholder, UNESCO Chair in Institutional Research and Higher Education Policy. Address: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza, ul. H. Wieniawskiego 1, 61-712 Poznan, Poland. E-mail: kwiekm@amu.edu.plThe argues that welfare state reforms and higher education reforms are closely linked to increasing intergenerational conflicts over public resources in aging societies, and reforms pressures are linked to the shrinking tax base, the power of neoliberal ideology, and changing social attitudes across Europe. The indirect impact of aging societies on all public sector services will lead to growing pressures on all public expenditures and to increased competition for public funding. A new context of university reforms in Europe is therefore defined in this paper as welfare state reforms. The paper discusses global agenda-setting and global diffusion of ideas; the impact of aging societies on intergenerational conflicts over public priorities (and public resources); globalization and pressures on welfare states; "university attitudes", parallel to "welfare attitudes"; post-industrial societies; the role of supportive discourses in the survival of public institutions; and the role financial and ideological pressures, as well as of changing social beliefs, in reforming European welfare states and higher education.
AU  - Marek Kwiek
UR  - https://archive_vo.hse.ru/en/2015--2/152230122.html
PY  - 2015
SP  - 8-39
VL  -