Governments as Interest Groups: Intergovernmental Lobbying and the Federal System

by Anne Marie Cammisa

State and local governments emerged as important interest groups in the 1960s, as that decade witnessed a rapid expansion of federal social programs administered at the state and local levels. The 1970s and 1980s were distinguished by attempts to give states and localities more responsibility over such programs. The present day is marked by an even more purposeful return of responsibility and policymaking to state and local governments, both because...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275949621
• ISBN13: 9780275949624
• Release Date: November 1995
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.6"