Interest Groups, Federalism, and Water Quality in the Great Lakes

Chasing a Moving Target

Bibliographic Data

ID20461108
AuthorsMelissa Shaffer-O’Connell (Lake Superior State University, corresponding author)
Year2017
Volume47
Issue1
Pages89-100
Publication date2017-01-02
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe American Review of Canadian Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0272-2011 • E-ISSN: 1943-9954
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/02722011.2017.1299773
OpenAlexW2601848276
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited12

Federalism often creates additional decisions for interest groups in determining how best to advocate for their policy recommendations in the legislative process. Should they focus their advocacy at the local, state, or national level of government? This article examines interest group behaviors in water quality policy in the Great Lakes region from 1960 to 2000. I evaluate the reasons for interest group decisions about which level of government to target, using historical analysis of Great Lakes water quality policy in the United States and Canada. The results of this analysis show that in many cases groups are influenced in their decision-making based on the level of government that has the greatest jurisdiction over the policy, supporting a neoinstitutional argument

Cooperative federalism · Economics · Federalism · Interest group · Jurisdiction · Legislature · Political science · Politics · Public economics · Special Interest Group · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Law · Policy Transfer and Learning · Political Influence and Corporate Strategies · Public Administration

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