Kevin J. Dougherty is an associate professor at Teachers College, Columbia University and a senior research associate at the Community College Research Center. He is the author of The Contradictory College: The Conflicting Origins, Impacts, and Futures of the Community College. Rebecca S. Natow is a postdoctoral research associate with the Community College Research Center at Teachers College.

The 'definitive assessment' of performance funding in higher education... Council of Independent Colleges Newsletter An in-depth study of an important topic...enlightening and very thorough. Comparative Education Review The Politics of Performance Funding for Higher Education: Origins, Discontinuations, and Transformations is the most comprehensive volume on the current state of performance funding in higher education. Contemporary Sociology The Politics of Performance Funding for Higher Education clearly articulates the origins, implications, and life cycles of performance-based funding as a complex function of higher education finance that is here to stay. Teachers College Record

• Acknowledgments1. IntroductionConundrums of Performance FundingResearch Questions and a Preview of Methods and PerspectivesChapter Contents and Preview of Findings2. Putting U.S. Performance Funding in ContextConceptualizing AccountabilityAccountability to State GovernmentState Finance of Higher Education as AccountabilityThe Use of Performance Outcomes in State FundingContextualizing U.S. Performance FundingSummary and Conclusions3. The Varying Trajectories of Higher Education Performance Funding ProgramsHow Many States Have Adopted Performance Funding?Two Waves of Performance Funding AdoptionDifferent Stages of Performance FundingVarying Trajectories of Performance FundingSynopses of the Performance Funding Programs in Our Eight StatesSummary and Conclusions4. Origins of the First Wave of State Performance Funding Adoptions with Rachel Hare Bork, Sosanya M. Jones, and Blanca E. VegaExplaining the Rise of State Performance FundingTheoretical PerspectivesResearch MethodsBroad-Based Social Forces Giving Rise to Performance FundingSupporters of Performance Funding and Their MotivesOpponents and Their BeliefsCoalition FormationIdentification of Policy SolutionsAgenda SettingSummary and Conclusions5. Incremental Change in Florida, Ohio, and TennesseeSelection of Cases and InterviewsTheoretical FrameworkIncremental Change in Funding Levels for Performance FundingIncremental Change in Performance IndicatorsSummary and Conclusions6. Performance Funding DiscontinuedResearch and Theoretical PerspectivesFactors Contributing to Performance Funding Program DiscontinuationRisk Factors for Performance Funding DiscontinuationSummary and Conclusions7. Origins of the Second Wave of Performance Funding Adoptions with Sosanya M. Jones, Hana Lahr, Lara Pheatt, and Vikash ReddyObjectives and Theoretical PerspectivesResearch Methods and Data SourcesBroad-Based Social Forces Giving Rise to the Wave 2 ProgramsAdvocacy Coalitions Supporting Performance FundingMuted OppositionFormation of the Supporting CoalitionsIdentification of Policy SolutionsPolicy Windows Opening the Way for PF 2.0Similarities and Differences in the Origins of Wave 1 and 2 ProgramsSummary and Conclusions8. Summary and ConclusionsSummary of FindingsResearch and Theory ImplicationsWhat Is the Likely Future of Performance Funding?AppendixResearch QuestionsTheoretical PerspectivesResearch MethodsNotesReferencesIndex

Kevin J. Dougherty is an associate professor at Teachers College, Columbia University and a senior research associate at the Community College Research Center. He is the author of The Contradictory College: The Conflicting Origins, Impacts, and Futures of the Community College. Rebecca S. Natow is a postdoctoral research associate with the Community College Research Center at Teachers College.

The 'definitive assessment' of performance funding in higher education... Council of Independent Colleges Newsletter An in-depth study of an important topic...enlightening and very thorough. Comparative Education Review The Politics of Performance Funding for Higher Education: Origins, Discontinuations, and Transformations is the most comprehensive volume on the current state of performance funding in higher education. Contemporary Sociology The Politics of Performance Funding for Higher Education clearly articulates the origins, implications, and life cycles of performance-based funding as a complex function of higher education finance that is here to stay. Teachers College Record

• Acknowledgments1. IntroductionConundrums of Performance FundingResearch Questions and a Preview of Methods and PerspectivesChapter Contents and Preview of Findings2. Putting U.S. Performance Funding in ContextConceptualizing AccountabilityAccountability to State GovernmentState Finance of Higher Education as AccountabilityThe Use of Performance Outcomes in State FundingContextualizing U.S. Performance FundingSummary and Conclusions3. The Varying Trajectories of Higher Education Performance Funding ProgramsHow Many States Have Adopted Performance Funding?Two Waves of Performance Funding AdoptionDifferent Stages of Performance FundingVarying Trajectories of Performance FundingSynopses of the Performance Funding Programs in Our Eight StatesSummary and Conclusions4. Origins of the First Wave of State Performance Funding Adoptions with Rachel Hare Bork, Sosanya M. Jones, and Blanca E. VegaExplaining the Rise of State Performance FundingTheoretical PerspectivesResearch MethodsBroad-Based Social Forces Giving Rise to Performance FundingSupporters of Performance Funding and Their MotivesOpponents and Their BeliefsCoalition FormationIdentification of Policy SolutionsAgenda SettingSummary and Conclusions5. Incremental Change in Florida, Ohio, and TennesseeSelection of Cases and InterviewsTheoretical FrameworkIncremental Change in Funding Levels for Performance FundingIncremental Change in Performance IndicatorsSummary and Conclusions6. Performance Funding DiscontinuedResearch and Theoretical PerspectivesFactors Contributing to Performance Funding Program DiscontinuationRisk Factors for Performance Funding DiscontinuationSummary and Conclusions7. Origins of the Second Wave of Performance Funding Adoptions with Sosanya M. Jones, Hana Lahr, Lara Pheatt, and Vikash ReddyObjectives and Theoretical PerspectivesResearch Methods and Data SourcesBroad-Based Social Forces Giving Rise to the Wave 2 ProgramsAdvocacy Coalitions Supporting Performance FundingMuted OppositionFormation of the Supporting CoalitionsIdentification of Policy SolutionsPolicy Windows Opening the Way for PF 2.0Similarities and Differences in the Origins of Wave 1 and 2 ProgramsSummary and Conclusions8. Summary and ConclusionsSummary of FindingsResearch and Theory ImplicationsWhat Is the Likely Future of Performance Funding?AppendixResearch QuestionsTheoretical PerspectivesResearch MethodsNotesReferencesIndex

Kevin J. Dougherty is an associate professor at Teachers College, Columbia University and a senior research associate at the Community College Research Center. He is the author of The Contradictory College: The Conflicting Origins, Impacts, and Futures of the Community College. Rebecca S. Natow is a postdoctoral research associate with the Community College Research Center at Teachers College.

The 'definitive assessment' of performance funding in higher education... Council of Independent Colleges Newsletter An in-depth study of an important topic...enlightening and very thorough. Comparative Education Review The Politics of Performance Funding for Higher Education: Origins, Discontinuations, and Transformations is the most comprehensive volume on the current state of performance funding in higher education. Contemporary Sociology The Politics of Performance Funding for Higher Education clearly articulates the origins, implications, and life cycles of performance-based funding as a complex function of higher education finance that is here to stay. Teachers College Record

• Acknowledgments1. IntroductionConundrums of Performance FundingResearch Questions and a Preview of Methods and PerspectivesChapter Contents and Preview of Findings2. Putting U.S. Performance Funding in ContextConceptualizing AccountabilityAccountability to State GovernmentState Finance of Higher Education as AccountabilityThe Use of Performance Outcomes in State FundingContextualizing U.S. Performance FundingSummary and Conclusions3. The Varying Trajectories of Higher Education Performance Funding ProgramsHow Many States Have Adopted Performance Funding?Two Waves of Performance Funding AdoptionDifferent Stages of Performance FundingVarying Trajectories of Performance FundingSynopses of the Performance Funding Programs in Our Eight StatesSummary and Conclusions4. Origins of the First Wave of State Performance Funding Adoptions with Rachel Hare Bork, Sosanya M. Jones, and Blanca E. VegaExplaining the Rise of State Performance FundingTheoretical PerspectivesResearch MethodsBroad-Based Social Forces Giving Rise to Performance FundingSupporters of Performance Funding and Their MotivesOpponents and Their BeliefsCoalition FormationIdentification of Policy SolutionsAgenda SettingSummary and Conclusions5. Incremental Change in Florida, Ohio, and TennesseeSelection of Cases and InterviewsTheoretical FrameworkIncremental Change in Funding Levels for Performance FundingIncremental Change in Performance IndicatorsSummary and Conclusions6. Performance Funding DiscontinuedResearch and Theoretical PerspectivesFactors Contributing to Performance Funding Program DiscontinuationRisk Factors for Performance Funding DiscontinuationSummary and Conclusions7. Origins of the Second Wave of Performance Funding Adoptions with Sosanya M. Jones, Hana Lahr, Lara Pheatt, and Vikash ReddyObjectives and Theoretical PerspectivesResearch Methods and Data SourcesBroad-Based Social Forces Giving Rise to the Wave 2 ProgramsAdvocacy Coalitions Supporting Performance FundingMuted OppositionFormation of the Supporting CoalitionsIdentification of Policy SolutionsPolicy Windows Opening the Way for PF 2.0Similarities and Differences in the Origins of Wave 1 and 2 ProgramsSummary and Conclusions8. Summary and ConclusionsSummary of FindingsResearch and Theory ImplicationsWhat Is the Likely Future of Performance Funding?AppendixResearch QuestionsTheoretical PerspectivesResearch MethodsNotesReferencesIndex