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"This book uses policy stories and rigorous data analysis to illuminate the roles of executives and interest groups in shaping state budgets and their long-term trajectories. While executives have specific roles and powers in the process, interest groups ultimately provide opportunities for change in public policy"--
List of contents
List of illustrations; List of tables; Acknowledgements; Part I. Setting Public Policy: 1. Explaining One Million Policy Stories; 2. Meeting at the Margins: Interests and Governors in Public Budgeting; Part II. Motives, Opportunities, and Means of Policy Change: 3. Motives: Issues of the Moment(s); 4. Opportunities: Interest Groups and their Budgetary Issues; 5. Means: How Governors Shape Budgetary Outcomes; 6. How Interests and Executives Set Public Policy in Four States with Nat Rubin; Part III. Public Policy and Budgeting in the American States: 7. Conclusion: Public Government of Public Monies; Bibliography; Index.
About the author
Christian Breunig is Professor of Comparative Politics at the University of Konstanz and Director of the German Policy Agendas project. He has received three awards from the American Political Science Association and was a policy fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University in 2022–23.Chris Koski is Professor of Political Science and Daniel B. Greenberg Chair of Environmental Studies at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. He chaired the Public Policy (2022–23) and Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy (2020–23) sections of the American Political Science Association and is the co-author of The Real World of American Politics: A Documentary Introduction (2022).
Summary
This book uses policy stories and rigorous data analysis to illuminate the roles of executives and interest groups in shaping state budgets and their long-term trajectories. While executives have specific roles and powers in the process, interest groups ultimately provide opportunities for change in public policy.
Foreword
Illuminates how governors, motivated by political issues, shape budgets according to the opportunities interest groups provide them.
