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Article: Public opinion, partisan identification, and higher education policy.
- Article from:
- Journal of Higher Education
- Article date:
- July 1, 2007
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Introduction
Higher education is increasingly becoming an issue for political campaigns and candidates. The 2004 presidential campaign even included a heated exchange regarding the funding of the Pell Grant program during the debates (Commission on Presidential Debates, 2004). While higher education as a policy issue was once the reserve of a small group of interested parties, prominent Democrats and Republicans are now visibly aligning with different policy objectives.
Despite this increased level of partisanship regarding higher education policy issues, relatively little is known about whether the public has actively partisan beliefs about higher ...