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State-Level Measures of Institutional Budgetary Influence from the American State Administrators Project: 1964–98

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2021

Nelson C. Dometrius ,
Cynthia Bowling ,
Margaret R. Ferguson  and
Deil S. Wright
Nelson C. Dometrius*
Affiliation:
Texas Tech University, Lubbock, USA
Cynthia Bowling
Affiliation:
Auburn University, Auburn, AL, USA
Margaret R. Ferguson
Affiliation:
Indiana University–Purdue University, Indianapolis, USA
Deil S. Wright
Affiliation:
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
*
Nelson C. Dometrius, Texas Tech University, Boston & Akron Streets, Lubbock, TX 79409, USA Email: nelson.dometrius@ttu.edu
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Abstract

The American State Administrators Project is a half-century long research program surveying the attitudes and behavior of state agency leaders. The project has produced a voluminous number of publications and conference papers. At the same time it has also faced several difficulties in making its data more widely available to the scholarly community. This paper describes the Project, some of the data difficulties it has faced, and the portion of the data being distributed with this article.

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governorslegislaturesbudgetsstates

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State Politics & Policy Quarterly , Volume 13 , Issue 1 , March 2013 , pp. 107 - 120
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Copyright © The Author(s) 2012

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