Policy attention in state and nation: Is anyone listening to the laboratories of democracy?

David Lowery; Virginia Gray; Frank R. Baumgartner

doi:10.1093/publius/pjq039

Policy attention in state and nation: Is anyone listening to the laboratories of democracy?

David Lowery, Virginia Gray, Frank R. Baumgartner

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Do patterns of policy attention at the state level influence agenda setting in Washington over the short term? We examine this question by first developing a series of hypotheses about such linkages. We test these conjectures with a data set pooling measures of policy attention at the national and state levels for several years and several policy areas. We find little evidence that changes in state policy agendas in the aggregate influence national patterns of policy attention.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	286-310
Number of pages	25
Journal	Publius
Volume	41
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/publius/pjq039
State	Published - 2011

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Sociology and Political Science
Public Administration

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