Called to Account: Analyzing the Origins and Spread of State Performance-Accountability Policies for Higher Education

By Michael K. Mclendon, James C. Hearn, Russ Deaton. 2006

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Subfields: Political Science and International Relations, Public Administration, Strategy and Management

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New challenges for higher education: global and Asia-Pacific perspectives (2009, background): “Governments have begun to decentralize power and emphasize the importance of institutional performance (Henkel 1997; McLendon et al. 2006; Volkwein and Tandberg 2008).”
Performance Funding in Higher Education: Do Financial Incentives Impact College Completions? (2014, positive): “…funding programs. while tennessee had a performance funding program in place since 1979, these programs did not take hold nationally until the 1990s. mclendon et al (2006), note that in 1985 only two states had such a policy, but by 2001 nearly half of all states adopted (though did not…”
Impacts of performance-based accountability on institutional performance in the U.S. (2010, background): “ McLendon et al. (2006) studied state reforms and found that legislative party strength and higher education governance influenced the adoption of the new accountability.”
Evaluating the Impacts of “New” Performance Funding in Higher Education (2015, background): “…practices (Banta, Rudolph, Van Dyke, & Fisher, 1996; Bogue & Johnson, 2010; Burke & Minassians, 2001; Dougherty, Natow, Hare, Jones, & Vega, 2011; McLendon et al., 2006), a growing number of studies have examined the relationship between performance funding and institutional practices and…”
An Examination of the (Un)Intended Consequences of Performance Funding in Higher Education (2017, background): “However, states have increasingly adopted performance management policies to increase accountability and efficiency—to get more for less (McLendon et al., 2006).”