ABSTRACT
The primary aims of the reforms have been to improve the governance of universities by deregulation, increase university autonomy and managerial authority over organizations’ processes, and increase output control. One way to investigate the government’s regulation of universities is to analyze whether the policy instrument is applied. Performance management is both a normative and descriptive theory, whereas the normative intentions of the doctrine have shown to differ substantially from how the performance management–inspired reforms are implemented in practice. Political executives are accustomed to govern and influence the society by the establishment of rules in laws and ministerial orders. The increasing number of rules in the University Act can be characterized as a reregulation of the governance inside government. The analysis of the governmental regulation over time shows a reregulation with an increased number of rules in the Act and a decreased number of rules in the ministerial orders.
