Political Economy of Higher Education Finance

Julian L. Garritzmann is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Konstanz, Germany. Previously, he was Visiting Fellow at Harvard University. His work has appeared in the Journal of European Social Policy, the Journal of European Public Policy, and in West European Politics. In 2014, he was awarded the JESP/ESPAnet Doctoral Researcher Prize.

• Chapter 1. The Politics of Higher Education Tuition Fees and Subsidies.- Chapter 2. The Four Worlds of Students Finance - A Comparatives Descriptive Overview of Tuition Fees and Subsidies in 33 OECD-Countries.- Chapter 3 'Some Flesh to the Bones' - Illustrative Case Studies of Four Diverse Cases Over Seven Decades.- Chapter 4. What do Parties Want? - Parties' Positions and Issue Emphases on Tuition Fees and Subsidies.- Chapter 5. Testing the Time-Sensitive Partisan Theory in Large-n Analyses: Parties' Impact on the Tuition-Subsidy Regimes of 21 Democracies over Time.- Chapter 6. Individual-Level Attitudes towards Subsidies - How Positive Feedback Effects Prevent (Radical) Change in the Four Worlds of Student Finance.- Chapter 7. The Political Economy of Higher Education Tuition Fees and Subsidies: Conclusion and Outlook.

"Julian Garritzmann's book provides a very important addition to the literature on higher education policy-making as well as higher education finance. His study is well grounded in contemporary approaches from political science, and the breadth as well as depth of his empirical analyses is impressive. His call for attention to political processes, system structures as well as political actors and their preferences in the study of higher education policy is timely and well argued." (Jens Jungblut, European Journal of Higher Education, Vol. 7 (1), January, 2017)