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Setting the Governmental Agenda for State Decentralization of Higher Education
- The Journal of Higher Education
- The Ohio State University Press
- Volume 74, Number 5, September/October 2003
- pp. 479-515
- 10.1353/jhe.2003.0038
- Article
- Additional Information
State decentralization of higher education emerged as a significant governance trend of the 1980s to 1990s. Yet little is known about how or why decentralization first became an issue to which state governments paid serious attention. This study employs multiple theories to analyze the agenda-setting stage of policy formation in three states that enacted decentralization legislation.