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Introduction: The Politics of Higher Education

Now, 30 years later, the same assessment can still be made: As a subject of social scientific inquiry, politics of higher education research remains in a state of perpetual infancy, prone to periodic lurches but lacking in sustained and systematic conceptualization and analysis. That politics of higher education scholarship should remain so scattered and irregular is somewhat curious given the richness of the parent political science discipline and the rather steady advances of K-12 specialists in developing a politics of education literature in their own field. This 2003 edition of the Politics of Education Association Yearbook and special issue of Educational Policy represent an effort to invigorate politics of higher education scholarship, an important but longneglected area of inquiry likely to be of interest to many social scientists, particularly higher education researchers.