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Latin America higher education has undergone an astonishing transformation in recent years, highlighted by the private sector's growth from 3 to 34 percent of the region's total enrollment. In this provocative work Daniel Levy examines the sources, characteristics, and consequences of the development and considers the privatization of higher education within the broader context of state-society relationships.

Levy shows how specific national circumstances cause variations and identifies three basic private-public patterns: one in which the private and public sectors are relatively similar and those in which one sector or the other is dominant. These patterns are analyzed in depth in case studies of Chile, Mexico, and Brazil. For each sector, Levy investigates origins and growth, and then who pays, who rules, and whose interests are served.

In addition to providing a wealth of information, Levy offers incisive analyses of the nature of public and private institutions. Finally, he explores the implications of his findings for concepts such as autonomy, corporatism, and privatization. His multifaceted study is a major contribution to the literature on Latin American studies, comparative politics, and higher education.

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• List of Tables
• List of Abbreviations
• Acknowledgments
• 1 Issues and Concepts
• Issues
• Introduction and Themes
• Private Challenges to Public Dominance Private-Public Policy Debates
• The Literature Concepts
• The State Private and Public
• U.S. and European
• Models Overview of Chapters
• 2 Private versus Public Growth Analytical Categories
• The Genesis of Public and Private Sectors
• Private/Public Fusion
• Private-Public Separation: Public Monopoly
• The Catholic Reaction: Wave I
• Public Sector Evolution: Toward Perceived ""Fa