The Politics of Performance Funding for Higher Education : Origins, Discontinuations, and Transformations.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (271 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- Conundrums of Performance Funding -- Research Questions and a Preview of Methods and Perspectives -- Chapter Contents and Preview of Findings -- 2 Putting U.S. Performance Funding in Context -- Conceptualizing Accountability -- Accountability to State Government -- State Finance of Higher Education as Accountability -- The Use of Performance Outcomes in State Funding -- Contextualizing U.S. Performance Funding -- Summary and Conclusions -- 3 The Varying Trajectories of Higher Education Performance Funding Programs -- How Many States Have Adopted Performance Funding? -- Two Waves of Performance Funding Adoption -- Different Stages of Performance Funding -- Varying Trajectories of Performance Funding -- Synopses of the Performance Funding Programs in Our Eight States -- Summary and Conclusions -- 4 Origins of the First Wave of State Performance Funding Adoptions -- Explaining the Rise of State Performance Funding -- Theoretical Perspectives -- Research Methods -- Broad-Based Social Forces Giving Rise to Performance Funding -- Supporters of Performance Funding and Their Motives -- Opponents and Their Beliefs -- Coalition Formation: The Role of Policy Entrepreneurs -- Identification of Policy Solutions -- Agenda Setting: Policy Windows and External Shocks -- Summary and Conclusions -- 5 Incremental Change in Florida, Ohio, and Tennessee -- Selection of Cases and Interviews -- Theoretical Framework -- Incremental Change in Funding Levels for Performance Funding -- Incremental Change in Performance Indicators -- Summary and Conclusions -- 6 Performance Funding Discontinued: Lessons from Florida, Illinois, Missouri, and Washington -- Research and Theoretical Perspectives -- Factors Contributing to Performance Funding Program Discontinuation. Risk Factors for Performance Funding Discontinuation: In Theory and Practice -- Summary and Conclusions -- 7 Origins of the Second Wave of Performance Funding Adoptions -- Objectives and Theoretical Perspectives -- Research Methods and Data Sources -- Broad-Based Social Forces Giving Rise to the Wave 2 Programs -- Advocacy Coalitions Supporting Performance Funding -- Muted Opposition -- Formation of the Supporting Coalitions: The Role of Policy Entrepreneurs -- Identification of Policy Solutions -- Policy Windows Opening the Way for PF 2.0 -- Similarities and Differences in the Origins of Wave 1 and 2 Programs -- Summary and Conclusions -- 8 Summary and Conclusions -- Summary of Findings -- Research and Theory Implications -- What Is the Likely Future of Performance Funding? -- Appendix: Research Questions, Theoretical Perspectives, and Research Methods -- Research Questions -- Theoretical Perspectives -- Research Methods -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
Aimed at educators, sociologists, political scientists, and policy makers, this book will be hailed as the definitive assessment of the origins and evolution of performance funding.
9781421416915
Government aid to higher education. Universities and colleges-United States-Finance. Education, Higher-Economic aspects-United States.