Christine Musselin is Lecturer at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris and Senior CNRS researcher at the Centre de Sociologie des Organisations.

The management of faculty careers is a critical issue in university autonomy, and in many countries recent reforms have increasingly addressed this area. Musselin examines this crucial issue through the use of exhaustive empirical research - including over 200 interviews - on academic job hiring practices and faculty career patterns.

Foreword to the English Edition

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Academic Careers: Each Country has its Own Rules

2. Three National Labor Supply Construction Models

3. Forming Collective Judgments

4. Exercising Judgment to Select a Few Candidates from Among the Many

5. Uncertainty about Quality

6. "Pricing" Academics

7. Career Dynamics and Models of the Academic Profession.

Conclusion

Appendix: Tables A-H

Notes

Bibliography

Index