Performance-based funding for higher education: how well does neoliberal theory capture neoliberal practice?

Higher Education

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2020, Pages 457-478

  Dougherty, Kevin J ^a   Natow, Rebecca S ^b  

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

^b HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accountability; Neoliberalism; New public management; Performance funding; Performance based funding; Principal agent theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 85077163420     PISSN: 00181560     EISSN: 1573174X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10734-019-00491-4     Document Type: Article

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