How Minnesota adopted workers' compensation.

From: Independent Review | Date: March 22, 1998| Author: Fishback, Price V.; Kantor, Shawn Everett | Copyright information

The creation of a workers' compensation structure in Minnesota demonstrates several stages of public policy development. These include the complexity of the subject, the influence of special interest groups and the legislature, disputes over certain features, the effect of public attitudes and ongoing changes. Of these, the special interest groups exert a higher level of power by originating the need for the policy.

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