Part I. Theorizing Governance in Higher Education: 1. Theorizing the governance of higher education: beyond the 'Republic of Scholars' Ontology Giliberto Capano and Darryl S. L. Jarvis; Part II. Systems, Processes, and Dynamics of Governance in Higher Education: 2. The regulatory state and the labour process Kanishka Jayasuriya, Greg Mccarthy and Xianlin Song; 3. Systemic governance: convergence or hybridization? Giliberto Capano; 4. Institutional governance: factors, actors, and consequences of attempting to converge on the Anglo–American model Marino Regini; 5. Capture and drift in emerging international governance arrangements: the role of meta-organizations in higher education quality assurance Ase Gornitzka, Peter Maassen and Bjørn Stensaker; 6. Understanding convergence and divergence in the internationalization of higher education from a world society perspective Renze Kolster and Don F. Westerheijden; 7. Convergence through research performance measurement? Comparing talk and practices in Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom Jenny M. Lewis; 8. Accountability and governance in European higher education Michael Dobbins and Jens Jungblut; 9. Towards new models of decision making within university governance in anglophone nations Julie Rowlands; 10. Governance in public and private higher education in Europe: patterns, divergences, and convergences Pedro N. Teixeira and Robin Middlehurst; Part III. Geographies of Governance: 11. Higher education governance in North America Giliberto Capano and Jun Jie Woo; 12. Governance trends in European higher education Harry F. De Boer and Jeroen Huisman; 13. Governance and corruption in east and southeast Asian higher education: close cousins, close encounters Anthony Welch; 14. Fixing the system? Trends in African higher education governance Rose Amazan and Kassahun Kebede Dawo; 15. Neoliberals versus post-neoliberals in the formation of governance regimes in Latin America's higher education Miguel Alejandro Gonzalez-Ledesma and German Alvarez-Mendiola; Index.