Political Preferences and Public Funding of Tertiary Education during the Economic Crisis

Autor/inn/en	Skrbinjek, Vesna; Šušteršic, Janez; Lesjak, Dušan
Titel	Political Preferences and Public Funding of Tertiary Education during the Economic Crisis
Quelle	In: Tertiary Education and Management, 24 (2018) 2, S.168-186 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1358-3883
DOI	10.1080/13583883.2017.1407958
Schlagwörter	Economic Climate; Higher Education; Educational Finance; Federal Aid; Political Attitudes; Decision Making; Preferences; Financial Support; Classification; Political Influences; Foreign Countries; Statistical Analysis; Expenditures; Europe + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Wirtschaftslage; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Bildungsfonds; Political attitude; Politische Einstellung; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Finanzielle Förderung; Classification system; Klassifikation; Klassifikationssystem; Political influence; Politischer Einfluss; Ausland; Statistische Analyse; Ausgaben; Europa
Abstract	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. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01