Three dimensions of institutional contention: efficiency, equality and governance in Danish vocational education and training reform
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Three dimensions of institutional contention : efficiency, equality and governance in Danish vocational education and training reform. / Carstensen, Martin Bæk; Ibsen, Christian Lyhne.
In: Socio-Economic Review, Vol. 19, No. 3, 2019, p. 1037–1063.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Three dimensions of institutional contention
T2 - efficiency, equality and governance in Danish vocational education and training reform
AU - Carstensen, Martin Bæk
AU - Ibsen, Christian Lyhne
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - This article develops a new analytical framework to account for institutional change in vocational education and training (VET) systems. Trajectories of institutional change are typically explained using one of two perspectives on institutional contention. First, the Varieties of Capitalism-approach highlights positive efficiency effects from coordination between companies on skill formation. Second, a historical institutionalist approach focuses on positive political feedback effects from the governance of VET institutions. We propose adding a third dimension of institutional contention related to what role VET should play in fostering greater socio-economic equality. Employing this three-dimensional framework enables a more fine-grained analysis of gradual forms of institutional change and greater appreciation of the ways in which political struggles over the configuration of the three dimensions drive institutional reform. The argument is supported by analyzing the trajectory of institutional change in the Danish VET system in the post-war period.
AB - This article develops a new analytical framework to account for institutional change in vocational education and training (VET) systems. Trajectories of institutional change are typically explained using one of two perspectives on institutional contention. First, the Varieties of Capitalism-approach highlights positive efficiency effects from coordination between companies on skill formation. Second, a historical institutionalist approach focuses on positive political feedback effects from the governance of VET institutions. We propose adding a third dimension of institutional contention related to what role VET should play in fostering greater socio-economic equality. Employing this three-dimensional framework enables a more fine-grained analysis of gradual forms of institutional change and greater appreciation of the ways in which political struggles over the configuration of the three dimensions drive institutional reform. The argument is supported by analyzing the trajectory of institutional change in the Danish VET system in the post-war period.
M3 - Journal article
VL - 19
SP - 1037
EP - 1063
JO - Socio-Economic Review
JF - Socio-Economic Review
SN - 1475-1461
IS - 3
ER -
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