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Title: The Politics of State Higher Education Funding

Citation Type: Journal Article

Publication Year: 2008

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Abstract: An analysis of the theoretical and empirical connections between state funding for public higher education as a share of the total state general fund budget and various political attributes (e.g., interest groups, political ideology, voter turnout) of the U.S. states is presented in this article. Based upon data covering all 50 states over 24 years, most of the included political attributes are found to have significant, theoretically predictable effects on the share of state funding public higher education receives. The inclusion of politics in the explanatory model results in a more robust and pragmatically useful model than those that ignore the politics of the appropriations process.

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Authors: Tandberg, David A.

Periodical (Full): Higher Education in Review

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Volume: 5

Pages: 1-36

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Education, Other

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