An Anthropology of Academic Governance and Institutional Democracy The Community of Scholars in America /

• Main Author: Leaf, Murray J. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Educational sociology .; Education and sociology.; Economic sociology.; School management and organization.; School administration.; Educational policy.; Education and state.; Industrial sociology.; Sociology of Education.; Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology.; Administration, Organization and Leadership.; Educational Policy and Politics.; Sociology of Work.

This anthropological study of university governance organizations has four main purposes. It aims to describe the principles of effective faculty governance organizations and shared governance; to help mobilize opposition to a large and extremely well-funded system of political attacks aimed at dest...