Strange Bedfellows: Explaining Patterns of Interstate Cooperation

• In Event: Legislative Behavior and State Policy Agendas

Brief Overview

In this paper we develop a theoretical and empirical model of interstate cooperative behavior. Drawing on theories of institutional collective action, we assess our hypotheses on a panel dataset of American interstate compacts from 1970 to 2020.

Authors

• Neal D. Woods, University of South Carolina, Columbia

• Ann O'M. Bowman, Texas A & M University, College Station

• Jiyoon Kang, University of South Carolina