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SCHOOL BOARD INCUMBENT DEFEAT IN PARTISAN ELECTIONS

FRANK W. LUTZ (Currently Professor and Director, Division of Education Policy Studies, at the Pennsylvania State University. Along with numerous journal publications, he has both written and edited books dealing with educational policy matters)
PATRICK D. LYNCH (Chairman of the Educational Administration Section of the Division of Education Policy Studies, is also Director of the Native American Administrator Training Program at the Pennsylvania State University)

Journal of Educational Administration

ISSN: 0957-8234

Publication date: 1 February 1973

Abstract

This research replicated earlier research done in non‐partisan school district elections, concerning the effect of school board member incumbent defeat on non‐voluntary superintendent turnover. In earlier research incumbent defeat was related to involuntary superintendent turnover at the .001 level. It was felt that the partisan (Democratic‐Republican) nature of school board elections in Pennsylvania might change the nature of this relationship and offer some insight into the effect of partisan politics on the local politics of education. Based on the research reported in this article it does not appear that partisan elections have the predicted influence on the politics of local school districts. No partisan predictors supplied a more significant relationship with non‐voluntary superintendent turnover than the general category of incumbent defeat regardless of partisan relationships.

Citation

LUTZ, F.W. and LYNCH, P.D. (1973), "SCHOOL BOARD INCUMBENT DEFEAT IN PARTISAN ELECTIONS", Journal of Educational Administration, Vol. 11 No. 2, pp. 195-202. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb009700

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MCB UP Ltd

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