Within a generation we have seen an extraordinary global expansion of Higher Education. By focusing on systems and countries with near universal participation, and by developing a series of propositions about high-participation in Higher Education, this volume explores a transformation in education and society.

Worldwide Tendencies 1: Simon Marginson: High participation systems (HPS) of higher education 2: Patrick Clancy and Simon Marginson: Comparative data on high participation systems 3: Brendan Cantwell, Rómulo Pinheiro, and Marek Kwiek: Governance 4: Dominik Antonowicz, Brendan Cantwell, Isak Froumin, Glen A. Jones, Simon Marginson, and Rómulo Pinheiro: Horizontal diversity 5: Brendan Cantwell and Simon Marginson: Vertical stratification 6: Simon Marginson: Equity 7: Anna Smolentseva: High participation society Country Cases 8: Glen A. Jones: Decentralization, provincial systems, and the challenge of equity: High participation higher education in Canada 9: Brendan Cantwell: Broad access and steep stratification in the first mass system: High participation higher education in the United States of America 10: Simon Marginson: Regulated isomorphic competition and the middle layer of institutions: High participation higher education in Australia 11: Anna Smolentseva, Isak Froumin, David L. Konstantinovskiy, and Mikhail Lisyutkin: Stratification by the state and the market: High participation higher education in Russia 12: Marek Kwiek: Building a new society and economy: High participation higher education in Poland 13: Jussi Välimaa and Reetta Muhonen: Reproducing social equality across the generations: The Nordic model of high participation higher education in Finland 14: Rómulo Pinheiro and Bjørn Stensaker: Balancing efficiency and equity in a welfare state setting: High participation higher education in Norway 15: Akiyoshi Yonezawa and Futao Huang: Towards universal access amid demographic decline: High participation higher education in Japan 16: Brendan Cantwell, Simon Marginson, and Anna Smolentseva: Conclusions: High participation higher education in the post-Trow era

Comparative scope, with broadly contrasting examples from America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific Data analysis and original theorising supported by sustained empirical scrutiny and testing Addresses several important aspects of higher education, government policy, and crucial issues such as inequality and social exclusion Draws on research of sixteen contributors working in eight countries Consistent writing style designed to be read in entirety as a single narrative

Dr Brendan Cantwell Brendan Cantwell is an associate professor of Higher, Adult, and Lifelong Education in Michigan State University's Department of Educational Administration. His research, which has been published in a variety of journals and books, addresses the political economy of higher education. Dr Cantwell is a co-editor of The Handbook of Politics of Higher Education (with Hamish Coates and Roger King) and is a Coordinating Editor for the journal Higher Education. Professor Simon Marginson Simon Marginson is Professor of International Higher Education at the UCL Institute of Education at University College London in the UK, Director of the ESRC/HEFCE Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE), and Editor-in-Chief of Higher Education. CGHE is a government-research partnership of five UK and eight international universities with 16 projects on global, national, and local aspects of higher education. Professor Marginson's research and published scholarship are focused on the global and international dimensions of higher education, on national system dynamics, and on higher education and social equality. Dr Anna Smolentseva Anna Smolentseva is a senior researcher at the Institute of Education, National Research University Higher School of Economics in Moscow. She is a sociologist who works on the changing role of higher education in societies, educational inequality, and transformations in post-socialist higher education systems. Dr Smolentseva received a PhD in sociology from Moscow State University. She has been a recipient of a US National Academy of Education/Spencer postdoctoral fellowship, Fulbright New Century Scholar grant, and a visiting scholar at the CSHPE at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is an author of a number of publications in Russian and English.

Comparative scope, with broadly contrasting examples from America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific Data analysis and original theorising supported by sustained empirical scrutiny and testing Addresses several important aspects of higher education, government policy, and crucial issues such as inequality and social exclusion Draws on research of sixteen contributors working in eight countries Consistent writing style designed to be read in entirety as a single narrative