Telegrams to Washington: Using Memorials to Congress as a Measure of State Attention to the Federal Policy Agenda

This article argues that state legislative memorials to Congress are an underutilized tool in the study of federalism. A data set composed of the 4,119 memorials submitted to Congress from 1987 to 2006 was constructed to study the evolution of state priorities in intergovernmental policy and to exam...

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Published in:State & local government review 2010-12, Vol.42 (3), p.235-245
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State legislatures
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