Abstract
Policy ideas are seldom original; they are often borrowed from other jurisdictions and sometimes adapted to the local context. This chapter reviews research on policy diffusion within the U.S. higher education context, with a focus on the diffusion of higher education policies across states. In addition to reviewing existing literature on U.S. higher education policy diffusion, we present findings from a study that examines newspaper language related to state-level performance-based funding policies for higher education. We focus on two states that considered performance-based funding but were among the few states that did not implement this higher education funding approach. By examining these two states, we are able to explore reasons for non-implementation and shed light on the phenomenon of resistance to policy diffusion.
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Gándara, D., Woolley, C. (2023). Policy Diffusion in U.S. Higher Education. In: Jungblut, J., Maltais, M., Ness, E.C., Rexe, D. (eds) Comparative Higher Education Politics . Higher Education Dynamics, vol 60. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25867-1_19
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