Die Forschungsuniversität, der freie Markt und die Entdemokratisierung der höheren Bildung in den USA

In: Prokla: Zeitschrift für kritische Sozialwissenschaft, Band 26, Heft 3/104: Universität, S. 441-462

Abstract

The paper outlines the postwar transformation of American higher education from expansive, social-democratic policies based on "guns and butter" to current policies based on privatization, globalization, and economic competitiveness and leading to increasing economic and political inequality. The effects of the adoption of the research university model on institutional and disciplinary competition are surveyed in reference to recent ideological debates in the fields American Studies and Cultural Studies. (Prokla / FUB)