IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/oup/publus/v35y2005i4p515-535.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

State and Local Government Organizations and the Formation of the Help America Vote Act

Author

Listed:
  • Daniel J. Palazzolo
  • Fiona R. McCarthy

Abstract

Several state and local government organizations lobbied Congress during the formation of the Help America Vote Act (HAVA). This article distinguishes between “general” government organizations (those that represent the general interests of state and local governments) and “functionalist” organizations (those that implement specific programs or functions). Whereas generalists sought to advance “spatial” interests, functionalists sought to advance “administrative” interests. We also apply theories of congressional organization and committee leadership to explain the access of state and local governments to Congress and their influence over policy. The organizations had more access to, and influence in, the House Committee on Administration than in the Senate Rules and Administration Committee. The differences were primarily the result of three factors: informational demands, partisan considerations, and the personal qualities of committee leaders. Copyright 2005, Oxford University Press.

Suggested Citation

  • Daniel J. Palazzolo & Fiona R. McCarthy, 2005. "State and Local Government Organizations and the Formation of the Help America Vote Act," Publius: The Journal of Federalism, CSF Associates Inc., vol. 35(4), pages 515-535, Fall.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:publus:v:35:y:2005:i:4:p:515-535
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1093/publius/pji039
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Faith Bradley & William D. Schreckhise & Daniel E. Chand, 2017. "Explaining States’ Responses to the REAL ID Act: the Role of Resources, Political Environment, and Implementor Attitudes in Complying with a Federal Mandate," Journal of the Knowledge Economy, Springer;Portland International Center for Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET), vol. 8(3), pages 877-897, September.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:oup:publus:v:35:y:2005:i:4:p:515-535. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Oxford University Press (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://academic.oup.com/publius .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.