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Matthew Effect and public administration research: An analysis of the relationship of institutional prestige to research funding levels and departmental research productivity at U.S. schools of public administration
Title
The Matthew Effect and public administration research: An analysis of the relationship of institutional prestige to research funding levels and departmental research productivity at U.S. schools of public administration.
Creator
Popejoy, Michael William., Florida Atlantic University, Lynch, Thomas D.
Abstract/Description
The Matthew Effect is a biblical metaphor coined by Derek de Solla Price to describe a violation of Robert K. Merton's Norms of Science particularly the Norm of Universalism. It is based on the principle of accumulative advantage operating in socially stratified systems to produce the same result: the rich get richer at a rate that makes the poor become relatively poorer. Prestige attracts a disproportionate share of scarce resources available for research. Applying the Matthew Effect theory...
Show moreThe Matthew Effect is a biblical metaphor coined by Derek de Solla Price to describe a violation of Robert K. Merton's Norms of Science particularly the Norm of Universalism. It is based on the principle of accumulative advantage operating in socially stratified systems to produce the same result: the rich get richer at a rate that makes the poor become relatively poorer. Prestige attracts a disproportionate share of scarce resources available for research. Applying the Matthew Effect theory to public administration research revealed for the first time in the discipline that the most prestigious institutions did attract more research funding than their less prestigious counterparts. Using measures of prestige, research funding, and research productivity, a series of bivariate and multivariate analyses were run on the sample survey data from 69 respondent U.S. schools of public administration. The results indicated that the schools rated as prestigious did attract more funding and schools that were better funded did more research. Also, schools that actively sought grants achieved more grant funding. However, the reverse was not true. The increased funding levels and increased research productivity did not influence prestige in the short-run. The results support the literature from sociology and education that prestige, funding and productivity are positively related but that prestige is not enhanced in the short-term by higher levels of research productivity or funding. The existence of the Matthew Effect operating on the discipline of public administration was confirmed. The dissertation also focused attention on the relative effects of productivity and prestige on funding levels using grant-getting activities as a measure of faculty research productivity. The results demonstrated that prestige outweighed grant-getting activity, but was not the sole determinate in establishing funding levels.
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Date Issued
1994
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12380
Subject Headings
Public administration--Research--United States, Research--United States--Finance, Universities and colleges--Research--United States
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Enrollment management strategies, campus involvement, and goal achievement in public research universities
Title
Enrollment management strategies, campus involvement, and goal achievement in public research universities.
Creator
Brown, Michelle Jitka Domas, Florida Atlantic University, Pisapia, John
Abstract/Description
This study investigated the practice of enrollment management in public Research Universities. The study produced six key findings. First, the number of Research universities with an enrollment management plan is slightly lower than universities without a plan. Second, the Enrollment Management Division was the most prevalent organizational structure created. Third, increasing overall enrollment and improving graduation rates were chosen most frequently by the universities as their most...
Show moreThis study investigated the practice of enrollment management in public Research Universities. The study produced six key findings. First, the number of Research universities with an enrollment management plan is slightly lower than universities without a plan. Second, the Enrollment Management Division was the most prevalent organizational structure created. Third, increasing overall enrollment and improving graduation rates were chosen most frequently by the universities as their most important goals. Fourth, technology and physical structure strategies were utilized the most for recruitment. And, policies and procedures strategies were used the most for retention. Fifth, the strategies most frequently used were identified and discussed in greater detail. Finally, four to five was the average number of functional areas involved in the implementation of any goal. The study supports that an enrollment management plan must be unique for each institution and provides considerations for practitioners and leaders of higher education. However, it raises question to the need for a formal written enrollment management plan for success and to the relationship between strategic planning and enrollment management.
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Date Issued
2002
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FADT12015
Subject Headings
Education, Higher--Aims and objectives
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