ABSTRACT Dominant explanations of state higher education policy tend to emphasize economic models that foreground the business cycle or political approaches that cast ideology as fairly fixed. We instead foreground changing social context to conceptualize state appropriations as predicted not only by these classic explanations, but also by the interplay of racial representation and political party control. Drawing on the racial backlash hypothesis and quantitative analyses, we show that party control of state government and racial representation in higher education jointly explain state appropriations. Unified Republican governments spent more than Democratic or divided governments when White students were overrepresented. Republicans spent less otherwise. These results suggest that partisan attitudes toward racial representation in higher education may shape state government support for colleges and universities.

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党派偏见、白人种族仇恨和国家对高等教育的支持

摘要 对国家高等教育政策的主要解释倾向于强调经济模型，这些经济模型将商业周期或政治方法视为相当固定的意识形态。相反，我们将不断变化的社会背景放在首位，以概念化国家拨款，这不仅是这些经典解释所预测的，而且是种族代表和政党控制的相互作用所预测的。借鉴种族反弹假设和定量分析，我们表明党对州政府的控制和高等教育中的种族代表性共同解释了国家拨款。当白人学生人数过多时，统一的共和党政府比民主党或分裂的政府花费更多。共和党人在其他方面花费较少。