An empirical study was conducted analyzing the relationship between certain demographic, economic, and socio-political factors and state appropriation outcomes for public four-year colleges and universities in Florida, Illinois and Virginia over a twenty-one year period. The demographic factors included: total state population; college age population (both traditional and non-traditional); enrollment level; degree of urbanization; and population density. The economic factors included: per capita income; state revenue level; state unemployment rate; and degree of high technology industrialization. The socio-political factors included: participation rate in public higher education; voter turnout; and degree of political party competition. The conceptual framework underlying this study was derived primarily from Easton's (1965) political systems model. The data were drawn from the Grapevine and various federal data bases, and the method of analysis was a stepwise regression technique within a time series framework. Each state was analyzed separately. / The results suggest no consistency in the environmental factor/appropriation outcome relationship among the three states. The strength and direction of the relationships between the environmental variables tested and the state appropriation outcomes for public four-year colleges and universities varies from state to state. The conclusions drawn from the results of this study are twofold. First, it is evident that in all cases there is some relationship present between the external environment and state appropriations outcomes for public higher education over time. This is congruent with previous research in this area. Second, the variance between the states as illustrated by the results could have been due to methodological problems such as multicollinearity or it could have been due to more substantive reasons such as different political cultures. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 49-12, Section: A, page: 3636. / Major Professor: David W. Leslie. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1988.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_77886 |
| Contributors | Layzell, Daniel Thomas., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 184 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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