Academic Mobilization:A New Perspective to Understand the Academic Governance of Chinese Universities
Understanding the academic governance of Chinese universities is the starting point to explain the increase of academic output and promote the modernization of academic governance.At present,the academic circles have carried out fruitful theoretical discussions on the"academic tournament system"and"academic outsourcing system"which focus on the academic governance process and the"academic unit system"which focus on the macro institutional structure,but have not paid enough attention to the"academic mobilization"which exists in the early stage of governance activities.Academic mobilization usually involves mobilizing subjects to promote conceptual obedience,recognition and even internalization of mobilized objects through the means such as project establishment,policy releasing,indicator decentrali-zation,interest induction,publicity and agitation,and example demonstration by means of a"top-down"administrative system,so as to arouse the enthusiasm of the object and make it respond passively or actively and participate in academic affairs.In the context of governance,academic mobilization has three meanings:academic mobilization as a tool of governance,a practice of governance and a system of governance.Based on mobilization scale and mode,academic mobilization can be divided into four ideal types:large-scale rigid mobilization,local rigid mobilization,local flexible mobilization and large-scale flexible mobilization.They not only have their own specific scope of application,but also can complement each other and jointly affect the academic governance practice.At the practical level,the current academic mobilization has formed a complete set of multi-level mobilization mechanisms that interact with each other,crisscrossing and nesting each other.In particular,the mobilization chain of"mobilization goal-organizational construction-mobili-zation execution-inspection and acceptance"based on administrative power has become its dominant operating mechanism.The mobilization chain of"acceptance mobilization-target disassembly-re-mobilization"is an invisible linkage mechanism.From the perspective of institutional change,academic mobilization version 1.0 exists as a manifestation of"campaign governance"and belongs to an unconventional governance model.Version 2.0 is the routinization of unconventional governance,and now governance weakness occurs from time to time,so the shift from"results-oriented"to"people-centered"practice may be the 3.0 version of academic mobilization.
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