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Partisans, Professionals, and Power: The Role of Political Factors in State Higher Education Funding by McLendon, Michael K, Hearn, James C, Mokher, Christine G

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Academic Turnarounds: Restoring Vitality to Challenged American Colleges and Universities (review) by McLendon, Michael K

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Uniting Secondary and Postsecondary Education: An Event History Analysis of State Adoption of Dual Enrollment Policies by Mokher, Christine G., McLendon, Michael K.

“…This study, as the first empirical test of P–16 policy antecedents, reports the findings from an event history analysis of the origins of state dual enrollment…”
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Called to Account: Analyzing the Origins and Spread of State Performance-Accountability Policies for Higher Education by McLendon, Michael K., Hearn, James C., Deaton, Russ

“…Employing a theoretical framework derived from the policy innovation and diffusion literature, this research examines how variations over time and across state…”
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The Governor and the State Higher Education Executive Officer: How the Relationship Shapes State Financial Support for Higher Education by Tandberg, David A., Fowles, Jacob T., McLendon, Michael K.

“…Researchers have shown renewed interest during the past decade in the relationships among politics, policy, finance, and governance of higher education at the…”
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Financing College Opportunity: Factors Influencing State Spending on Student Financial Aid and Campus Appropriations, 1990 through 2010 by McLENDON, MICHAEL K., TANDBERG, DAVID A., HILLMAN, NICHOLAS W.

“…Some states invest relatively heavily in financial aid programs that benefit lower-income citizens, while other states concentrate their investment in programs…”
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Rethinking College Student Retention by Braxton, John M, Doyle, William R, Hartley, Harold V., III, Hirschy, Amy S, Jones, Willis A, McLendon, Michael K

“…Drawing on studies funded by the Lumina Foundation, the nation's largest private foundation focused solely on increasing Americans' success in higher…”
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State policies and higher education attainment by McLendon, Michael K, Perna, Laura W

“…This article introduces a collection of empirical work that examines the role of state policy in promoting students’ progression into and through higher…”
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State-Funded "Eminent Scholars" Programs: University Faculty Recruitment as an Emerging Policy Instrument by Hearn, James C., McLendon, Michael K., Lacy, T. Austin

“…Over the past two decades, state governments have increasingly invested in programs to recruit accomplished scientists from elsewhere to university positions…”
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State-Funded 'Eminent Scholars' Programs: University Faculty Recruitment as an Emerging Policy Instrument by Hearn, James C, McLendon, Michael K, Lacy, T. Austin

“…Over the past two decades, state governments have increasingly invested in programs to recruit accomplished scientists from elsewhere to university positions…”
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State Postsecondary Policy Innovation: Politics, Competition, and the Interstate Migration of Policy Ideas by McLendon, Michael K., Heller, Donald E., Young, Steven P.

“…Lingering questions about the effects of postsecondary governance structure on the policy-adoption behavior of state governments have assumed new significance…”
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The Enactment of Reforms in State Governance of Higher Education: Testing the Political Instability Hypothesis by McLendon, Michael K., Deaton, Russ, Hearn, James C.

“…In this article, we report the results of an analysis of legislatively enacted reforms in state governance of higher education from 1985-2000. Building on the…”
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Setting the Governmental Agenda for State Decentralization of Higher Education by McLendon, Michael K.

“…State decentralization of higher education emerged as a significant governance trend of the 1980s to 1990s. Yet little is known about how or why…”
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Legislative Agenda Setting for In-State Resident Tuition Policies: Immigration, Representation, and Educational Access by McLendon, Michael K., Mokher, Christine G., Flores, Stella M.

“…Few recent issues in higher education have been as contentious as that of legislation extending in-state college tuition benefits to undocumented students,…”
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Insights and Implications for State Policy-Makers by PERNA, LAURA W., KLEIN, MICHAEL W., McLENDON, MICHAEL K.

“…Using a range of data and analytic approaches, the articles in this volume offer insights for understanding how state policy can increase higher education…”
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The Adoption of Prepaid Tuition and Savings Plans in the American States: An Event History Analysis by Doyle, William R., McLendon, Michael K., Hearn, James C.

“…The past two decades have been a period of far-reaching policy experimentation in state financing of higher education. Between 1986 and 1999, 21 states adopted…”
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State Postsecondary Policy Innovation: Politics, Competition, and the Interstate Migration of Policy Ideas by McLendon, Michael K. (Michael Kevin), Heller, Donald E, Young, Steven P

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The Politics of Higher Education: Toward an Expanded Research Agenda by McLendon, Michael K.

“…The politics of higher education as a field of study suffers from acute underdevelopment. The challenge confronting politics of higher education researchers is…”
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The Enactment of Reforms in State Governance of Higher Education: Testing the Political Instability Hypothesis by McLendon, Michael K. (Michael Kevin), Deaton, Steven B, Hearn, James C

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Accounting for Student Success: An Empirical Analysis of the Origins and Spread of State Student Unit-record Systems by Hearn, James C., McLendon, Michael K., Mokher, Christine G.

“…This event history analysis explores factors driving the emergence over recent decades of comprehensive state-level student unit-record [SUR] systems, a…”
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