Performance Funding for Higher Education: Forms, Origins, Impacts, and Futures

Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

Volumn 655, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 163-184

  Dougherty, Kevin J ^a   Jones, Sosanya M ^b   Lahr, Hana ^a   Natow, Rebecca S ^a   Pheatt, Lara ^a   Reddy, Vikash ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

accountability; higher education policy; performance accountability; performance funding; state policy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907168723     PISSN: 00027162     EISSN: 15523349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0002716214541042     Document Type: Article

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