A qualitative comparative analysis of the evolution path of postgraduate enrollment expansion policies and social development in China.

ABSTRACT: Postgraduate enrollment expansion policies in China have formed a development system of postgraduate education with an expansion of scale and increase of categories. Taking the institutional equilibrium theory as the prerequisite of assumption, this study evaluates 30 postgraduate enrollment expansion policies using the fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis method (fsQCA method) and explores the matching degree between policy changing path and social development. It is found that path dependence is the main cause and trend of progressive policy change, the construction of the national strategy determines the direction and content of policy change, and the environment induces the abrupt logic and gives early warning to policy change. Therefore, the postgraduate enrollment expansion pol

SUBMITTER: Liu Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10877260 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature