Lobbying and policymaking : the public pursuit of private interests /

Lobbying and policymaking : the public pursuit of private interests / Ken Godwin, Scott H. Ainsworth, Erik Godwin.

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What is the impact of lobbying on the policymaking process? And who benefits? This book argues that most research overlooks the lobbying of regulatory agencies even though it accounts for almost half of all lobbying - even though bureaucratic agencies have considerable leeway in how they choose to i...

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Online Access: Full Text (via SAGE)
Main Authors: Godwin, Ken (Author), Ainsworth, Scott H. (Author), Godwin, Erik (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage/CQ Press, [2013]
Subjects:
Lobbying > United States.
Pressure groups > United States.
Lobbying.
Politics and government.
Pressure groups.
United States > Politics and government > 20th century.
United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Key concepts and ideas
  • Models of influence
  • The policy process
  • Policymaking by regulatory agencies
  • Interest-group participation, strategies, and success in the regulatory process
  • Lobbying alone or collectively
  • The case for neopluralism
  • Evidence for the exchange model
  • Building a model of lobbying
  • Conclusions and implications
  • Appendix: so you wanto to become a lobbyist?

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