Date of Award

1-1-2010

Language

English

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

College/School/Department

Department of Educational Policy and Leadership

Content Description

1 online resource (xvi, 267 pages) : PDF file, illustrations (some color)

Dissertation/Thesis Chair

Daniel C. Levy

Committee Members

Gilbert A. Valverde, Kevin Kinser

Keywords

Fuzzy-Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA), Institutional Diversity, Political Economy, Private Higher Education, Thailand, Education, Higher, Private universities and colleges

Subject Categories

Educational Administration and Supervision | Education Policy | Higher Education

Abstract

Private higher education (PHE) worldwide has been a rapid development in the last several decades. The private sector will continue to grow, diversify and undoubtedly play a significant role in the political economy of higher education. Nevertheless, systematically empirical studies on the trio relationships among PHE, institutional diversity and political economy are still miniscule, especially outside the U.S. In Thailand, studies on even public higher education utilizing international literature are rare, as is research with a macro-level empirical analysis of private-public comparison. Thus, this study focuses on the fundamental differences among Thai private higher education institutions (PHEIs) and between private and public ones and the extent to which political economy influences their shapes and differences. The study attempts to determine and demonstrate whether, how and how much the Thai case fits Levy's (1986b) PHE pioneering concepts on types of PHE: religious-oriented, semi-elite, demand-absorbing.

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