我国高等教育市场化的源头和动力--一种新制度主义分析

本文以新制度主义的视角来考察中国高等教育领域出现的市场化现象,发现了市场化的源头为招收走读自费生,并且在具体分析市场化过程当中,发现其动力来自于高校内部的一些精英的意识和努力——他们不仅很好地把握了机构自身的利益,而且为其合法化做出努力。而这一合法化过程以“扩大高校自主权”概念的提出为核心。

On the Origin and Dynamic of Marketization of Higher Education in China

In the view of neoinstitutionalism, the author discovers that the process of marketization of higher education in China since late 1970s origins from the practice of recruiting commoners. The author further argues that the momentum of this institutional change comes from the elites of universities, who make efforts to build their organizational interests and legitimize it with the core conception of "expanding university autonomy".