"Your agenda is our agenda": State legislators' perspectives of interest group influence on political decision making

Journal of Community Practice

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 201-220

  Teater, Barbra ^a  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agenda setting; Interest groups; Social policy; State legislation

Indexed keywords

EID: 65749294703     PISSN: 10705422     EISSN: 15433706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10705420801998037     Document Type: Article

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