NGA (continued)

and collective action, 4, 11, 174

committees, 128–129, 144, 163, 181

and lobbying success, 34, 41, 45, 128, 131, 142, 144, 147

and qualitative research, xiii, 10, 33, 36–37, 39, 44, 151

and quantitative research, xiii, 5, 18, 32–33, 37–39, 41–44, 115, 117, 151, 155, 159, 161

NGA Center for Best Practices, 15–16, 19

NGA Office of Federal Relations, 13–14, 33, 107, 129, 135

No Child Left Behind (NCLB), 2, 170–171

North Dakota, 11, 79, 90

Nussle, Jim, 107

Obama, Barack, 98, 110

Obama administration, 113

Oklahoma, 104

Omnibus Consolidated and Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act, 78

Ontario, 8

Patton, Paul, 60–61, 67, 161, 177–178

Pawlenty, Tim, 106, 109–110

Perry, Rick, 91

policy diffusion, 19

Preventative Health Services Block Grant, 123

Providing for Additional Security in States Act (Pass ID), 112, 165

punctuated equilibrium, 130

Pyle, Governor J. Howard, 35

Quam, David, 107

Quill v. North Dakota, 79

Real ID Act, 18, 30, 43, 94, 97–98, 101–114, 116, 136, 156–157, 165, 171–174

state legislative opposition, 104, 113, 156

state opposition to, 98, 101, 104–105, 109, 111, 171–172

Real ID Act: National Impact Analysis, The, 103

Republican(s), 67, 52, 90–91, 109–110, 160

Robb, Charles, 63

Romney, Mitt, 7

Roosevelt, Theodore, 15, 19, 27, 46

Scheppach, Ray, 55

Schwarzenegger, Arnold, 8

Senate Appropriations Committees Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, 60

Senate Budget Committee, 81