Explaining States’ Responses to the REAL ID Act: the Role of Resources, Political Environment, and Implementor Attitudes in Complying with a Federal Mandate

Faith Bradley (), William D. Schreckhise () and Daniel E. Chand ()
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Faith Bradley: University of Arkansas
William D. Schreckhise: University of Arkansas
Daniel E. Chand: New Mexico State University

Journal of the Knowledge Economy, 2017, vol. 8, issue 3, No 6, 877-897

Abstract: Abstract Fifteen state legislatures in the USA have enacted statutes prohibiting their states from complying with the federal REAL ID Act. This article seeks to explain why those states have explicitly opposed the act’s requirements. We determine to what extent state-level noncompliance is a product of the resources available to the state for compliance, the state’s political environment, the attitudes of key implementors in the state government, and the states’ level of concern with matters related to immigration. We find that the attitude of each state’s key implementor is the best predictor of whether a state has opted to oppose the act’s implementation.

Keywords: Policy implementation; REAL ID Act; Biometric data; Immigration policy; Bureaucratic politics; Federalism; State politics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1007/s13132-015-0295-y

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