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epaa-5214	Rubin, Paul G.	Political appointees vs. elected officials: Examining how the selection mechanism for state governing agency board members influences responsiveness to stakeholders in higher education policy-making	2021	23	.pdf	application/pdf	12160	459	39	Framed around the recent national policy agenda to improve postsecondary degree attainment and college completion, findings suggest that state agency board members in both states prioritized the opinions, insights, and goals of the state governor and governing agency staff, regardless of selection mechanism. Education Policy Analysis Archives Vol. 2 9 No. 115 10 Table 2 Distribution of Data Collected Georgia Nevada Total Interviews Conducted 8 8 State Governing Agency Board Members 4 5 State Governing Agency Officials 4 3 Total Documents Reviewed 182 176 Data analysis included coding transcriptions of the interviews and archival data using the qualitative data analysis program Dedoose with a priori codes based on an analytical framework that included: the role of state governing board members, research utilization, stakeholder group involvement, stages of the policy process, characteristics of the education sector (e.g., higher education attainment, higher education financing, higher education governance, K-12 education sector), and state-level features (e.g., political ideology, state economy and workforce, demographics of citizenry).	cache/epaa-5214.pdf	txt/epaa-5214.txt