Research Universities and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act: Competition, Resource Concentration, and the "Great Recession" in the United States

Autor/inn/en	Taylor, Barrett J.; Cantwell, Brendan
Titel	Research Universities and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act: Competition, Resource Concentration, and the "Great Recession" in the United States
Quelle	In: Higher Education Policy, 29 (2016) 2, S.199-217 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0952-8733
DOI	10.1057/hep.2015.21
Schlagwörter	Research Universities; Federal Aid; Federal Legislation; Economic Climate; Financial Exigency; Federal Government; Government Role; Regression (Statistics); Resource Allocation; Advantaged + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Forschungseinrichtung; Bundesrecht; Wirtschaftslage; Finanzielle Härte; Bundesregierung; Regression; Regressionsanalyse; Ressourcenallokation
Abstract	This paper conceptualizes the U.S. federal government's response to the "Great Recession" as a "natural experiment" whose broad emphasis on counter-cyclical spending contrasts with the tendency towards stratification within the quasi-market for academic research support. Regression results indicate that resources tended to flow towards a few already-advantaged universities, but also supported universities with lower levels of investment in research equipment and smaller bases of support from business and industry. Because the extent to which these results describe quasi-market mechanisms generally or merely reflect the peculiarities of the U.S. system is unclear, the paper concludes with propositions that could be critiqued and refined through studies in other national contexts. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01