Institutional Traps and Interest Groups in the Sphere of Education and Science
Autor: | Igor M. Shiriaev, Southern Federal Universit, Daria I. Mokrousova, Artyom A. Maskaev |
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Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Zdroj: | Journal of Economic Regulation. 11:087-104 |
ISSN: | 2412-6047 2078-5429 |
Popis: | The article is devoted to study of institutional traps of optimization in education and science spheres. Our analysis also identifies the role of key actors or groups of interests in education sphere in reproduction of aforesaid institutional traps. The main purpose of this paper is to demonstrate identified institutional traps and groups of interests with help of narratives that were generated in the course of organized focus-groups with university stuff. This article is based on previous research where key institutional traps in education sphere were identified and described. This paper continues the analysis of following institutional traps: metrics trap, the trap of increasing bureaucracy, the trap of financing gap, the trap of electronisation and digitalisation, the trap of reducing the quality of education, the trap of human resources and justifies the efficiency of focus groups research method for detection groups of interests as real or potential actors of institutional changes. This method enables to find out the existing contradictions inside the groups and as a consequence to deepen the understanding of the nature of studied institutional traps and propose recommendations for overcoming the negative effects of it. |
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