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- Title
Sustained Organizational Influence: American Legislative Exchange Council and the Diffusion of Anti‐Sanctuary Policy.
- Authors
Collingwood, Loren; El‐Khatib, Stephen Omar; Gonzalez O'Brien, Benjamin
- Abstract
Building upon existing literature, we offer a particular model of network policy diffusion—which we call sustained organizational influence. Sustained organizational influence necessitates an institutional focus across a broad range of issues and across a long period of time. Sustaining organizations are well‐financed, and exert their influence on legislators through benefits, shared ideological interests, and time‐saving opportunities. Sustaining organizations' centralized nature makes legislators' jobs easier by providing legislators with ready‐made model legislation. We argue that sustaining organizations uniquely contribute to policy diffusion in the U.S. states. We evaluate this model with a case study of state‐level immigration sanctuary policy making and the role that the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) played in disseminating model legislation. Through quantitative text analysis and several negative binomial state‐level regression models, we demonstrate that ALEC has exerted an overwhelming influence on the introduction of anti‐sanctuary legislative proposals in the U.S. states over the past 7 years consistent with our particular model of network policy diffusion. Implications are discussed.
- Subjects
AMERICAN Legislative Exchange Council; POLICY diffusion; INFLUENCE; SANCTUARY cities; HISPANIC Americans; LEGAL status of Hispanic Americans; UNITED States immigration policy; IMMIGRATION policy; FEDERAL-city relations; DEPORTATION
- Publication
Policy Studies Journal, 2019, Vol 47, Issue 3, p735
- ISSN
0190-292X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/psj.12284