This dissertation examines state-level policy innovation and interest group formation in primary and secondary education policy during the 1990s. While focusing specifically on the area of primary and secondary education, this research explores how underlying state characteristics lead to both the formation of interest groups and the enactment of policy innovations. The dissertation utilizes multidimensional scaling techniques to explore both policymaking similarities between states and the similarities of the diversity state interest group communities. I am able to expand on previous research into policy innovation and show that the state demographics and partisanship have a stronger influence on policy innovation than interest groups associated with primary and secondary education.
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