Who embodies the evaluative state? Programmatic actors in the chilean and colombian policies of quality assurance in higher education

Duque, Juan Felipe

doi:10.1002/epa2.1109

Cited by 11 publications

(4 citation statements)

References 18 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…incremental (Salazar y Leihy, 2013). Los trabajos sobre la concepción y la implementación de las acreditaciones muestran efectivamente que la expansión de la política de aseguramiento de la calidad ha dado lugar a un fenómeno de "sedimentación" (Dávila y Maillet, 2021;Duque, 2021). En este sentido, se puede decir que el desarrollo del aseguramiento de la calidad ha tenido ajustes y ha generado nuevos instrumentos, pero sus orientaciones generales siguen estando sujetas a la trayectoria establecida al final de la dictadura militar.…”

Section: Revisión Bibliográfica Y Marco Conceptualunclassified

“…Aunque estos cambios en el funcionamiento de la política chilena de aseguramiento de la calidad en la educación superior ya han sido estudiados más en detalle por publicaciones anteriores (e.g. Duque, 2021;Salazar, 2013), este artículo suma su piedra al edificio colectivo de la comprensión de las transformaciones del sistema chileno de educación superior al plantear una articulación entre los procesos de cambio dentro y fuera de las arenas institucionales. En particular, el valor agregado del enfoque propuesto por los trabajos sobre la instrumentación de la acción pública consiste en analizar cómo las decisiones estratégicas que en su momento permitieron un fortalecimiento de la regulación pública a través de la expansión del aseguramiento de la calidad fueron posteriormente repolitizadas para producir una crítica generalizada del sistema de educación superior.…”

Section: Conclusiónunclassified

See 1 more Smart Citation

Cambios del neoliberalismo en la educación superior chilena: el caso de la política de aseguramiento de la calidad

Duque

2023

REPS

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Este artículo analiza los procesos de cambio de las políticas neoliberales en la educación superior chilena. En particular, el trabajo estudia el desarrollo entre 1990 y 2018 de los dos principales instrumentos de la política de aseguramiento de la calidad de la educación superior en Chile: el licenciamiento y las acreditaciones. Además de ser los principales mecanismos de regulación de la calidad en este sector, estos instrumentos son particularmente reveladores de las tensiones, contradicciones y reposicionamientos de la acción pública en el campo de la educación superior desde el retorno de la democracia. Usando herramientas conceptuales derivadas de la literatura sobre la instrumentación de la acción pública y basándose en diversos datos cualitativos, el artículo repasa la génesis (1990-1998), la extensión (1998-2011) y la contestación (2011-2018) del aseguramiento de la calidad con el objetivo de identificar las formas de reapropiación que han intervenido en el desarrollo de este instrumento.

show abstract

Section: Revisión Bibliográfica Y Marco Conceptualunclassified

Section: Conclusiónunclassified

Cambios del neoliberalismo en la educación superior chilena: el caso de la política de aseguramiento de la calidad

Duque

2023

REPS

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“… 2021 ; Hassenteufel and Genieys 2021 ). Programmatic groups have so far also been found in defective democracies such as Chile (Duque 2021 ) and Brazil (Davidian 2021 ).…”

Section: Social Identities In Policy Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Social Identities in the Policy Process of Authoritarian Systems

Hornung

Schröder

Bandelow

2022

Polit Vierteljahresschr

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The integration of the social–psychological social identity approach to policy process research has recently generated new insights on policy-making. Empirical applications for established democracies and multilevel settings such as the European Union have identified five general types of social identities that are relevant for the preferences and behavior of policy actors and their stability and change over time. Social identities are based on joint memberships in social groups, such as organizations, demographic/biographical identities, sectors, locations, and informal opportunities for exchange (which may result in programmatic groups and identities). Some of these social groups, above all pluralistic interest associations and political parties, are directly related to the settings of embedded democracies. This article sheds light on the traveling capacity of the Social Identities in the Policy Process (SIPP) perspective by applying it to the Russian political system. An analysis of policy actors’ social identities in two federal ministries shows that in autocracies, interest intermediation, legitimacy, and influence on policy processes run through professional and informal groups when competing organizations and democratic institutions are absent. The results indicate that the SIPP perspective is adaptable to policy processes in different contexts but that the importance of identity types varies.

show abstract

“…Previous research on Colombian EQA policy has yielded rich descriptions of its philosophy, institutions and instruments (Revelo and Hernández, 2003; Pérez and Vega, 2017; Murillo et al , 2020) as well as insightful analyses of its effects, achievements and challenges (Langebaek, 2013; Roa, 2014; Malagón et al , 2019). However, just a handful of publications have paid attention to other dimensions of this policy, such as the discourses that sustain it (Rubaii and Bandeira, 2018), the underlying dynamics that it produces (Gómez and Celis, 2009; Duque, 2021a) or the policy process at its origin (Duque, 2021b).…”

Section: Literature Review and Conceptual Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

The evolving legitimacy of external quality assurance in Colombian higher education

Duque

2022

QAE

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Purpose This paper aims to analyze how the legitimacy of the policy of external quality assurance (EQA) in Colombian higher education has evolved over the past 30 years through an examination of its two main instruments: the compulsory control of minimum quality standards for academic programs and institutions (registro calificado) and accreditations of excellence for programs and institutions. Design/methodology/approach Based on the methodology of process-tracing, this paper offers a review of the main sequences of the policy of EQA in Colombian higher education: the origins (1990–1998), the expansion (1998–2011) and the contestation (2011–2021). In each sequence, the sources of the substantive and procedural legitimacy of the policy are analyzed. This analysis is based on qualitative data comprising semi-structured interviews with key informants, online information from the 2011 and 2018 student protests and official documentation. Findings The policy of EQA in Colombian higher education had relatively high levels of substantive and procedural legitimacy during the first two sequences. However, the situation has become more ambivalent since 2011. On the one hand, internal contradictions and student movements’ growing criticism of neoliberal policies have undermined some of the foundations of this policy. On the other hand, higher education institutions and the Colombian Government still have a positive perception of EQA and have recently revisited the policy to address some of its shortcomings. Originality/value From a conceptual standpoint, this paper advances our understanding of how quality assurance in higher education gains, sustains or loses legitimacy by discussing and testing typologies of legitimacy in the analysis of a national system of EQA. From an empirical perspective, this paper provides a diachronic analysis of EQA in Colombian higher education, a case that has primarily been studied through a technical-rational perspective.

show abstract

Who embodies the evaluative state? Programmatic actors in the chilean and colombian policies of quality assurance in higher education

Cited by 11 publications

References 18 publications

Cambios del neoliberalismo en la educación superior chilena: el caso de la política de aseguramiento de la calidad

Cambios del neoliberalismo en la educación superior chilena: el caso de la política de aseguramiento de la calidad

Social Identities in the Policy Process of Authoritarian Systems

The evolving legitimacy of external quality assurance in Colombian higher education

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About