Financing College Opportunity: Factors Influencing State Spending on Student Financial Aid and Campus Appropriations, 1990 through 2010

Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

Volumn 655, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 143-162

  McLendon, Michael K ^a   Tandberg, David A ^b   Hillman, Nicholas W ^c  

^a SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

college attainment; higher education; politics of policy; postsecondary finance; state policy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907164541     PISSN: 00027162     EISSN: 15523349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0002716214540849     Document Type: Article

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