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8 - Conclusion: Democracy in the States

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 June 2026

Mary Kroeger
Affiliation:
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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The book concludes with reflections on the implications of the documented instances of group and bureaucrat involvement in crafting a significant proportion of our state laws. Tracking the relative success that various actors have in getting their petitions transformed into statutory law is essential in furthering our understanding of whose voices are heard in this important branch of state power. My book project makes a major contribution to understanding state legislative decision making, interest group involvement, and interbranch interactions. Whose preferences are reflected at the agenda setting stage and ultimately passed? This chapter concludes that the volume, correlates of uptake, and relative success of these bills demonstrate that this pathway to legislation is a key to understanding how law is made in these important legislative institutions.

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