Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction and overview of the book / Bjørn Stensaker and Lee Harvey -- Accountability: understandings and challenges / Bjørn Stensaker and Lee Harvey -- Accountability in Australia: more power to government and market / Jeanette Baird -- Accountability in Africa: a disciplinary power in African higher education systems / Gerald Wangenge-Ouma & Patrício V. Langa -- Accountability in China: primitive attempts / Shuiyun Liu -- Accountability in Eastern Europe: becoming like everywhere else? / Paul Temple -- Accountability in Western Europe: shifting quality assurance paradigms / André Sursock -- Accountability in Latin America: focusing on quality assurance and funding mechanisms / Maria-José Lemaitre -- Accountability in the United States: sorting through an American muddle / Robert Zemsky -- Accountability and cross-border higher education: dynamics, trends and challenges / Robin Middlehurst -- Transnational accountability initiatives: the case of the EUA-audits / Alberto Amaral and Maria José Rosa -- Managerial and political strategies for handling accountability / William F. Massy -- Conclusions and reflections / Bjørn Stensaker and Lee Harvey.

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