Despite their common historical roots, two higher education systems in Latin America differ dramatically in their financing mechanisms. In Argentina, the national government completely subsidizes undergraduate programs in public institutions, while Chile relies mostly on tuition fees charged to individuals attending public institutions. Through quantitative and qualitative secondary sources, this paper shows that class interests (structural approach) and economic policies (ideational approach) played a major role in explaining comparative policy outcomes in these nondemocratic regimes. The article makes an explicit contribution to the understanding of comparative policy choices in nondemocratic regimes.

尽管它们有着共同的历史渊源，但拉丁美洲的两个高等教育系统在融资机制上存在巨大差异。在阿根廷，国家政府完全补贴公立机构的本科课程，而智利主要依靠向就读公立机构的个人收取学费。通过定量和定性的二手资料，本文表明阶级利益（结构方法）和经济政策（观念方法）在解释这些非民主政权的比较政策结果方面发挥了重要作用。这篇文章对理解非民主政体中的比较政策选择做出了明确的贡献。