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Varieties of Capitalism - Varieties of Degrees? : Undergraduate Education in Germany and the United States Compared

  • German policy makers and scholars have repeatedly referred to the United States’ higher education system as a model for improving the quality of universities in Germany. Starting at this debate about a potential "Americanization” of German higher education policy this dissertation focuses on the introduction of new bachelor’s programs at German universities and analyzes whether these new degrees resemble their American counterparts. The theoretical basis for this study is the “Varieties of Capitalism” (VoC) approach by Hall and Soskice, which argues that firms in coordinated market economies (CMEs) such as Germany need employees with specific skills, while employees in liberal market economies (LMEs) like the United States have to acquire general skills for the job market. Assuming that new German bachelor’s degrees are aimed at providing graduates with more general skills, the question of whether the introduction of these new degrees represents a convergence with American higher education policy and whether this indicates a shift towards a more liberal American-style market economy constitutes the main part of this study.

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Document Type:Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Author(s):Anna van Santen
Advisor:Anke Hassel, Susanne Lütz
Hertie Collections (Serial Number):Dissertations submitted to the Hertie School (03/2014)
Publication year:2014
Publishing Institution:Hertie School
Granting Institution:Hertie School
Thesis date:2014/10/07
Number pages:378
Release Date:2014/12/08
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Shelf mark: 2014D009 + 2014D008
Licence of document (German):Creative Commons - CC BY - 4.0 International
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