Race, Structure, and State Governments: The Politics of Higher Education Diversity

Abstract

This paper examines the politics of higher education diversity for both African Americans and Latinos, by investigating how the structure of the bureaucracy affects the relationship between descriptive and substantive representation. The key theoretical determinants of minority college enrollments are legislative representation, bureaucratic structure, university-level policies, and restrictions on affirmative action. A hierarchical linear model of 500+ universities over an 11-year period shows that each of these factors affects minority enrollments.

Does leadership lessen turnover? The moderated mediation effect of leader–member exchange and perspective taking on public servants

“…Turnover is a critical issue in public sector organizations at the moment, which is a task of strategic human resource management to maintain a productive workforce in public organizations. Turnover at a desirable level creates incentives and provides assistance to maintain creativity in the public sectors (Hicklin & Meier, ; Jung, ). However, strong evidence declares that turnover in excess is detrimental to the performance of the organizations due to the reason that it can interrupt service delivery and generate additional costs for replacing the leavers (Andrews, Boyne, & Walker, ; Hicklin & Meier, ).…”

Centralized Governance and Student Outcomes: Excellence, Equity, and Academic Achievement in the U.S. States

“…That gap exists despite calls from pioneers who encouraged the pursuit of these and other related lines of inquiry (Campbell & Mazzoni, 1976;Masters, Salisbury, & Eliot, 1964). Researchers have examined other dimensions of education governance in studies of public universities (Hicklin & Meier, 2008;Knott & Payne, 2004;Lowry, 2001;Nicholson-Crotty & Meier, 2003); the impacts of local governance, in particular the institutional pressures facing school superintendents (Hess, 1999) or school boards (Howell, 2005); the rise of mayoral control of urban schools (Henig, 2004); and markets . That gap in the research represents a missed opportunity because variation in how states govern education can inform more general debates about the relative benefits of centralized versus decentralized institutional reforms.…”

Support for Performance‐Based Funding: The Role of Political Ideology, Performance, and Dysfunctional Information Environments

“…Moreover, even the broader literature on bureaucratic values and administrative politics has been relatively limited in examining the impact of individual-level beliefs among organizational leaders and public managers on policy implementation (Meier and O'Toole 2006). While there have been some notable recent developments in eff orts to empirically measure bureaucratic values (Bertelli and Grose 2011;Clinton and Lewis 2008;Clinton et al 2012;Rabovsky 2014), much of the existing research has relied primarily on the use of proxy measures, such as gender or racial and ethnic characteristics, to characterize the policy preferences of public administrators (Hicklin and Meier 2008;Keiser et al 2002;Meier and O'Toole 2006;Meier andStewart 1991, 1992;Nicholson-Crotty, Grissom, and Nicholson-Crotty 2011;Roch and Pitts 2012;Selden 1997;Sowa and Selden 2003).…”