Public University Funding and the Privatization of Politics

Spontaneous Generations 7 (1):21-28 (2013)
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Abstract

This essay first examines a few key aspects of the erosion of public university funding in the United States, showing how the ideal of value-free science has undermined efforts to defend a conception of universities as public goods. Then it considers how advocates of California's Proposition 30, a ballot initiative that restored some public university funding, frequently adopted the same logic of privatization they sought to counteract.

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Mark B. Brown
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