Economic Shocks, Federalism and Redistribution

Exploring the Future of Europe Through a Comparison of the Evolution of Student Financial Aid in the United States and the European Union

Cecile Hoareau McGrath

ResearchPosted on rand.org May 1, 2014Published in: Building The Knowledge Economy In Europe: New Constellations in European Research and Higher Education Governance / Meng-Hsuan Chou , Åse Gornitzka (eds.) (Cheltenham, United Kingdom May 2014), Chapter 9, p. 219-244

This chapter explores the potential mechanisms through which the Europe of Knowledge extends the boundaries of European integration by concentrating on the evolution of a policy domain which is not commonly attributed to European competency, namely redistributive mechanisms in the higher education domain.

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  • Availability: Non-RAND
  • Year: 2014
  • Pages: 24
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.7249/pubs
  • Document Number: EP-50511

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