This study aims to examine how government policies have influenced the governance paradigm of Australian public universities from a historical perspective. In doing so, it addresses current uncertainty on government-governance connectivity.,The study draws on Foucault’s concept of governmentality and governance and uses a developed framework of three constituents of governance to explore government–governance connectivity through a critical discourse analysis.,The findings reveal that government policies have influenced the three constituents of governance differently since 1823, resulting in three distinct governance discourses. In the third governance discourse, the findings reveal a deviation from policy directions towards corporate managerialism, resulting in a hybrid governance control environment. This scenario has arisen due to internal stakeholders continuing to be oriented towards the previous management cultures. Other factors include structural and legalistic obstacles to the implementation of corporate managerialism, validity of the underlying theory informing the policy directions towards corporate managerialism and doubts on the achievability of the market based reforms associated with corporate managerialism. The totality of these factors suggests a theory practice gap to be confirmed through further empirical research. There are also policy implications for policymakers to recognize the hybrid control environment and ascertain the risk the hybrid control environment poses towards the expected outcomes of corporate managerialism.,The findings are limited to a critical discourse analysis of data from specific policies and journal publications on higher education and a developed framework of constituents of governance.,The study is the first to examine government–governance connectivity in Australian public universities and also the first to introduce a three-constituent governance framework as a conduit to explore such studies. The findings contribute to the literature in identifying a theory-practice gap and offer opportunities for further research to confirm them.

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政府政策如何影响澳大利亚公立大学的治理范式？

本研究旨在从历史角度考察政府政策如何影响澳大利亚公立大学的治理范式。在此过程中，它解决了当前政府与治理连通性的不确定性。,该研究借鉴了福柯的治理性和治理概念，并使用由治理的三个组成部分组成的成熟框架，通过批判性话语分析来探索政府与治理的连通性。,研究结果揭示自 1823 年以来，政府政策对治理的三个组成部分产生了不同的影响，从而产生了三种不同的治理话语。在第三个治理话语中，研究结果揭示了从政策方向转向公司管理主义的偏差，导致了混合治理控制环境。这种情况的出现是由于内部利益相关者继续以以前的管理文化为导向。其他因素包括实施公司管理主义的结构性和法律障碍、告知公司管理主义政策方向的基本理论的有效性以及对与公司管理主义相关的市场化改革的可实现性的怀疑。这些因素的总和表明，理论实践差距需要通过进一步的实证研究来确认。对于政策制定者来说，识别混合控制环境并确定混合控制环境对公司管理主义的预期结果构成的风险也具有政策含义。研究结果仅限于对来自高等教育的特定政策和期刊出版物的数据进行批判性话语分析，以及完善的治理要素框架。该研究是第一个研究澳大利亚公立大学政府与治理连通性的研究，也是第一个引入三要素治理框架作为探索此类研究的渠道。这些发现有助于文献确定理论与实践的差距，并为进一步研究以证实它们提供机会。