Acting as fire alarms with law enforcement? Interest groups and bureaucratic activity on hate crime

American Politics Research

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 95-130

  Haider Markel, Donald P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b Department of Political Science ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Bureaucracy; Hate crime; Interest groups; Legislative process; Legislative strategy; Public policy

Indexed keywords

EID: 29344461012     PISSN: 1532673X     EISSN: 15523373     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1532673X05275630     Document Type: Review

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