The Relevance of the German Excellence Initiative for Inequality in University Funding

Autor/inn/en	Mergele, Lukas; Winkelmayer, Felix
Titel	The Relevance of the German Excellence Initiative for Inequality in University Funding
Quelle	In: Higher Education Policy, 35 (2022) 4, S.789-807 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Mergele, Lukas)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0952-8733
DOI	10.1057/s41307-021-00233-1
Schlagwörter	Educational Finance; Financial Support; Universities; Educational Equity (Finance); Foreign Countries; Excellence in Education; Competition; Educational Philosophy; Longitudinal Studies; Educational History; Private Financial Support; Germany + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bildungsfonds; Finanzielle Förderung; University; Universität; Ausland; Lernerfolg; Wettkampf; Bildungsphilosophie; Erziehungsphilosophie; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Private Investition; Deutschland
Abstract	The "Excellence Initiative" was the largest competitive funding procedure to create German world-class universities and overcome the traditional Humboldtian homogenization of German higher education. This paper examines whether the Excellence Initiative has spurred financial inequality in the national higher education sector. For a period of 15 years, we analyze the third-party funding success of 78 universities that were either winning or losing in the competition. We find that the Excellence Initiative augmented pre-existing differences in third-party funding across institutions. However, this is a one-off level effect that does not initiate a further self-reinforcing divergence process as would be suggested by Matthew effects. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01