Political preferences and public funding of tertiary education during the economic crisis
| Autor: | Dusan Lesjak, Janez Sustersic, Vesna Skrbinjek |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
Higher education business.industry 05 social sciences 050301 education Sample (statistics) Affect (psychology) Preference Education Politics Educational finance Political science 0502 economics and business Development economics Statistical analysis business 0503 education Public funding 050203 business & management |
| Zdroj: | Tertiary Education and Management. 24:168-186 |
| ISSN: | 1573-1936 1358-3883 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/13583883.2017.1407958 |
| Popis: | This article analyses how political preferences, which are co-determined by the beliefs of decision-makers and influences of interest groups and the general public, affect the decisions to maintain or cut public funding for tertiary education during the economic crisis. Our sample included 29 European countries which we divided into two groups depending on the level of public funding for tertiary education before the crisis, which we used as a measure of revealed political preferences. We then observed the differences in changes in public tertiary education funding during the crisis between these two groups of countries using five different indicators. Three of the five indicators show that countries with a stronger political preference for tertiary education public funding cut their spending on tertiary education to a lesser extent (or even increased spending) during the economic crisis. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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