Means, Motives, and Opportunities: How Executives and Interest Groups Set Public Policy

by Chris Koski and Christian Breunig

Means, Motives, and Opportunities illuminates how states spend public money through the lens of governmental structure, executive power, and interest group competition. Christian Breunig and Chris Koski argue that policymaking is a function of not only policymakers' means (powers), but of their motives (issues) and opportunities (interest group competition) for change. Using over twenty-five years of data across all fifty US states, four in-depth...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009428608
• ISBN13: 9781009428606
• Release Date: February 2024
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"