高等教育绩效拨款政策的历史嬗变：以美国两个州为例

The Historical Evolution of the Performance Funding Policy for Higher Education: The Case of Two U.S. States

Since the 1970s， under the financial stress and the background of the emergence of accountability system， the federal government and each state government in USA has been paying more and more attention to higher education performance， and the performance funding policy has been carried out in many places. As the creator Tennessee has implemented the performance funding policy for higher education in 1979， and Florida is one of the few members of the second batch to implement this policy， with obvious features and longer time. In this paper， the authors try to compare the changing process of the performance funding policy for higher education in Tennessee and Florida， to summarize the different characteristics of changes in the performance funding policy of two states， and to explore the deep reasons behind the policy changes， in hopes of providing some references for higher education development in China.