You could take a look at the contribution by A.Corbett in European Journal in Education (vol 38, no 3).

Read the population ecology theory

I have not yet encountered this type of analysis. I would like to have them

This might be useful:

Reproduction in Education, Society and Culture

Pierre Bourdieu and Jean-Claude Passeron

(and possibly some of the many authors who have drawn on their work afterwards)

This might be of interest to you:

Antonio Gramsci and Raymond Williams: Workers, intellectuals and adult education.

Chapter Antonio Gramsci and Raymond Williams: Workers, intellectuals...

There's lots! Have a look at

Barrett B. (2017) Historical Institutionalism and Change in Higher Education. In: Globalization and Change in Higher Education. Palgrave Macmillan DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52368-2_3

Gulzhan Azimbayeva (2017) Comparing post-Soviet changes in higher education governance in Kazakhstan, Russia, and Uzbekistan, Cogent Education, 4:1, DOI: 10.1080/2331186X.2017.1399968

Heinz‐Dieter Meyer, Brian Rowan (2006) The New Institutionalism in Education, State University Press of NY

Lassnigg, L (2015), ' ‘Muddling through’ and historical institutionalism – Explanatory devices for the long term development of the dualistic Austrian VET system', IHS Sociological Series Working Paper 108, http://irihs.ihs.ac.at/3735/1/rs108.pdf

Dobbins, M. (2011). Explaining different pathways in higher education policy in romania and the czech republic. Comparative Education, 47(2), 223–245. https://doi.org/10.1080/03050068.2011.555116

Graf, L. (2016). The rise of work-based academic education in Austria, Germany and Switzerland. Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 68(1), 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/13636820.2015.1107749

Dobbins, M., & Knill, C. (2017). Higher education governance in France, Germany, and Italy: Change and variation in the impact of transnational soft governance. Policy and Society, 36(1), 67–88. https://doi.org/10.1080/14494035.2017.1278868

Tzortzis, K. (2010). Higher education policy in the EU, an institutional account. Library, (September). Retrieved from http://etheses.nottingham.ac.uk/1246/

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My chapter ‘The Role of Political and Policy Studies in Higher Education Policy Research’ in the book Theory and Method in Higher Education Research Chapter The Role of Political and Policy Studies in Higher Education...