Performance Based Funding of Universities: Czech Republic and Slovakia

Abstract

Performance-based funding is a relatively new phenomenon in public administration funding. Several countries, including the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic, have introduced elements of performance financing into higher education funding as well. The chapter analyzed the introduction of this funding in these two countries. The change has resulted in an increase in the publishing activities of universities, but has also been accompanied by negative effects. These effects are visible in different forms, like, efforts to create own publication platforms, publishing in predatory journals, creating citation circles, establishing “samizdat” journals, all related to the substitution of quality by quantity.