The Political Economy of Public Universities in the United States: A Review Essay
The Political Economy of Public Universities in the United States: A Review Essay
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美国公立大学的政治经济学：评论文章
DOI：
10.1177/153244000700700305
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发表时间：
2007
影响因子：
1.5
通讯作者：
R. Lowry
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作者：
R. Lowry
研究国家政治和政策的学者很少关注他们中的许多人工作的公立大学。公立高等教育是在州一级组织的，其资金和管理近年来在许多州进行了长时间的辩论。此外，这些大学提供了各种理论基础研究的贡献机会，包括公共服务的决策或购买，委托代理问题和治理的制度安排，制度改革的政治，政府拨款和预算权衡的决定因素，以及国有企业，公共官僚机构和非营利组织的内部决策。对这些问题的研究不仅可以产生与许多类型的机构和公共服务相关的见解，而且还有助于正在进行的关于州政府与高等教育之间关系的政策辩论。
Scholars of state politics and policy have devoted little attention to the public universities where so many of them work. Public higher education is organized at the state level, and its funding and governance have been debated at length in many states in recent years. Moreover, these universities provide opportunities for contributions to a variety of theoretically-grounded research, including the decision to make or buy public services, principal-agent issues and institutional arrangements for governance, the politics of institutional reform, the determinants of government appropriations and budgetary trade-offs, and internal decisionmaking in state-owned enterprises, public bureaucracies, and nonprofit organizations. Research on these issues could not only generate insights relevant to many types of institutions and public services but also contribute to ongoing policy debates over relations between state governments and higher education.