01320pab a2200145 454500008004000000100002100040245011900061260000900180300001500189520088600204650001801090650001901108650002101127773002601148180718b2009   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aDodds, Anneliese  aLiberalization and the public sector; the pre-eminent role of governments in the `sale' of higher education abroad  c2009  ap.397-411.  aMuch recent scholarship concerning liberalization has emphasized the role of regulates, rather than governments, in promoting liberalization. This article examines such scholarship in the light of an important development in the British and French public sectors - the creation of new agencies (the Education Counselling Serice and EdulFrance) to `sell' British and French higher education to potential international students. The new agencies attempted to induce two things: competition amongst higher education institutions for the recruitment of international students from developed and emerging economy countries, and the commodification of these students. This article shows that, contrary to existing theories of liberalization, governments were pre-eminent in pushing forward this liberalization, while higher education institutions attempted to hold it back. - Reproduced.  aPublic sector  aLiberalization  aHigher education  aPublic Administration