Policy discourses reflect different positons and interests. Rationalty in policy making can be increased by the negotiation between the discourses. This paper treats the issue of the local unversities' crisis in terms of discourse analysis. It categor...
Policy discourses reflect different positons and interests. Rationalty in policy making can be increased by the negotiation between the discourses. This paper treats the issue of the local unversities' crisis in terms of discourse analysis. It categorizes the issue into four different policy discourses: policy failure story, university, stratification story, ruining local community story, and city and university town story. The former three are ruling stories at present, but they are mainly of harsh critic without alternatives or of zero-sum confrontation approach. This paper finds a viable alternative answer in the local cities and universities' autonomy and their cooperation.