The study examines the determining factors that drive states to adopt and terminate performance funding policies for public higher education. I use four theoretical frameworksthe Electoral Connection, Political Environment, Policy Diffusion, and Principal-agent framesto study the entire performance funding policy lifecycle across 47 states from 1979-2009. I employ the Cox proportional hazards model modified to account for multiple repeatable events. I find that the following state-level factors determine the evolution of performance funding: increases in public enrollment; the extent of the Republican presence in the state legislature; the number of, and distance to, sustainable policy examples in other states; the type of state governance arrangements for higher education; and the mode of the policy initiation.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:VANDERBILT/oai:VANDERBILTETD:etd-06282013-140338 |
| Date | 17 July 2013 |
| Creators | Gorbunov, Alexander V. |
| Contributors | James C. Hearn, Christopher P. Loss, Stella M. Flores, William R. Doyle |
| Publisher | VANDERBILT |
| Source Sets | Vanderbilt University Theses |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/available/etd-06282013-140338/ |
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