Rethinking Policy Diffusion: The Interstate Spread of “Finance Innovations”

Research in Higher Education

Volumn 55, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 627-649

  Lacy, T Austin ^a   Tandberg, David A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion; Event history analysis; Postsecondary finance; State policy adoption

Indexed keywords

EID: 84896418182     PISSN: 03610365     EISSN: 1573188X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11162-014-9330-2     Document Type: Article

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