State Agencies and Their Environments: Examining the Influence of Important External Actors

摘要: Research on the federal bureaucracy has long recognized importance of organization environment for differentiating among agencies and affecting their political support as well policy outputs. Although been considered an element in behavior state well, research at this level less sensitive to important differences across agency environments. This article identifies four major actors agencies--the governor, legislature, clientele groups, professional associations--and based a 1978 survey administrators, evaluates empirically influence these sources over sample encompassing all 50 states. Data analysis shows that addition type, several factors are systematically associated with nature confronted, including structural characteristics, funding provisions, exogenous shocks normal operations environment. Jus...