The distinctiveness of the institutionalization and reinforcement of the Soviet model of higher education in the interwar period

Toderas, Nicolae (2011): The distinctiveness of the institutionalization and reinforcement of the Soviet model of higher education in the interwar period. Published in: Dystopia: Journal of Totalitarian Ideologies and Regimes , Vol. 1-2, No. 1 (July 2012): pp. 28-48.

Abstract

The article offers an analysis of the institutional change in the Soviet higher education during the establishment and consolidation period of the USSR. The objective of the analysis focuses on the process development, mainly on the description of the constitutive actions of the Soviet higher educational system. The approach is viewed from a neo-institutional perspective and aims at offering a palette of explanations like path dependence for the rooting, establishment and marginal adapting to context of the main organization and management relations of the Soviet higher education system in the interwar period. The arguments offered may be used currently to explain the processes related to the failure of changes aimed at modernizing the higher education system in Moldova in the years after 1991.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: Higher education, path dependence, institutional change
• Subjects: I - Health, Education, and Welfare > I2 - Education and Research Institutions > I21 - Analysis of Education; I - Health, Education, and Welfare > I2 - Education and Research Institutions > I28 - Government Policy; N - Economic History > N3 - Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy > N34 - Europe: 1913-; O - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth > O2 - Development Planning and Policy > O21 - Planning Models ; Planning Policy

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