| Building the Reservoir to Nowhere: The Role of Agencies in Advocacy Coalitions |
2010 |
2024 |
The purpose of the advocacy coalition framework is to explain policy change over time through an examination of the stability of advocacy coalitions within policy subsystems. Recently, scholars have confirmed that advocacy coalitions are held togethe... |
| Business Mobilization and Public Policy in the U.S. States |
2005 |
3722 |
The goal of this study is to examine how the political mobilization of business interests influences aggregate public policy outputs in the states. We examine the relationship between business mobilization and general state policy liberalism, as well... |
| Collective Action and the Mobilization of Institutions |
2002 |
1938 |
Bias in the composition of interest communities is often explained by reference to variations in the collective action constraint facing voluntary and nonvoluntary organizations. But with the exception of literature on PAC formation, studies of direc... |
| Collective Action and the Mobilization of Institutions |
2004 |
3789 |
Bias in the composition of interest communities is often explained by reference to variations in the collective action constraint facing voluntary and nonvoluntary organizations. But with the exception of literature on PAC formation, studies of direc... |
| An Integrated Approach to Policy Transfer and Diffusion |
2002 |
13038 |
This article reviews the existing literature on policy transfer and diffusion and offers a more integrated theory for examining the spreading of policy. Typical studies have treated each as separate, yet they are similar in many respects. For example... |
| Pollution, Politics, and Preferences for Environmental Spending in the States |
2007 |
3210 |
While state environmental and natural resource spending is designed to address actual environmental problems, the budget process is also inherently political. Thus, in the following article we ask a simple question: to what extent does state environm... |
| The Strange Disappearance of Investment in Human and Physical Capital in the United States |
2009 |
2279 |
Many scholars have argued that there are strong incentives for states to spend less money on redistributive or consumption programs, such as welfare, and more on developmental or investment programs, such as highways. Yet, over the last few decades, ... |
| When Sex Doesn't Sell - Political Scandals, Culture, and Media Coverage in the States |
2014 |
2169 |
The determinants of media coverage of political scandals are examined through a content analysis of AP Wire stories in ten states from 1998 to 2005. Tests of the conventional explanations of the amount of media coverage demonstrate that political cul... |