University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
A Comparative Study of the Higher Education Policies in the Fifty American States
Abstract
dc:descriptionThe need for a more systematic examination of state higher education policies was the inspiration for this study. The first step was to examine some of the major characteristics of higher education systems in the fifty states in an attempt to develop a quantitative measure of higher education policy. The next step was to determine the extent to which a state's higher education policy is a function of its socioeconomic and political environments. The assumption that higher education policy, or any policy, is a function of the socioeconomic and/or political environments of a state is founded on Easton's systems analysis framework and on Key's study of political competition. The work of these two political scientists was integrated by various scholars in the 1960s and a basic model for public policy analysis was established.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Ph.D.
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Dissertation
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Political Science
- Grantor
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Year dc:date
- 2014
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Knibbs, Linda Gail
Subjects
dc:subject × 1Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Identifier
- (UMI)AAI8203504
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/69801