UID:
almafu_9959231962102883
Format:
1 online resource (xv, 258 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-4833-4933-0
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1-4522-9299-X
Content:
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 implement law.
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Description based upon print version of record.
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LOBBYING AND POLICYMAKING - FRONT COVER -- LOBBYING AND POLICYMAKING -- CONTENTS -- TABLES, FIGURES, AND BOXES -- PREFACE -- ABOUT THE AUTHORS -- 1 KEY CONCEPTS AND IDEAS -- What Do Lobbyists Do? -- Key Terms -- Types of Lobbyists -- Types of Policies -- Approach of This Book -- Data -- Theoretical Rigor and Practical Politics -- 2 MODELS OF INFLUENCE -- Two Models and Two Metaphors -- The North American Free Trade Agreement -- Competing Models of Group Influence on Policy -- Pluralism and Elitism -- The Challenge of Exchange Models -- Issue Networks -- Can We Reject the Exchange or Pluralist Models? -- Neopluralism: It All Depends -- Interest Groups, Parties, and Political Representation -- Summary -- 3 THE POLICY PROCESS -- Making Sense of the Policy Process -- Policy Stages and the Study of Group Influence -- Energy Policy -- The American Jobs Creation Act -- The Data Quality Act and the Battle Over Atrazine -- The Impact of the Data Quality Act on Regulation -- The Battle Over Atrazine -- Placing Our Case Studies Within the Policy Stages Framework -- The Role of Collective and Private Goods -- Summary -- 4 POLICYMAKING BY REGULATORY AGENCIES -- The Breadth of the Regulatory Process -- The Role of the Bureaucracy in the Creation of Law -- The Relationship Between Oversight Mechanisms and Lobbying -- Lobbying Strategies -- Case Studies of a Police Patrol and a Fire Alarm -- Implementing the Data Quality Act -- The Environmental Protection Agency and the Regulation of Perchlorate -- Summary -- 5 INTEREST-GROUP PARTICIPATION, STRATEGIES, AND SUCCESS IN THE REGULATORY PROCESS -- Incentives for Lobbying the Bureaucracy -- The Frequency and Perceived Importance of Regulatory Lobbying -- Perceived Lobbying Success -- Strategies for Influencing Regulatory Agencies -- Written Comments Concerning a Proposed Rule.
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Participation in Federal Advisory Committees -- Lobbying Congress to Affect Regulatory Agencies -- Public Hearings -- Regulatory Waivers -- Summary -- 6 LOBBYING ALONE OR COOPERATIVELY -- Drug Reimportation -- The Death Tax -- The Effectiveness of Cooperative Lobbying -- Building a Coalition -- Benefits of Joining a Coalition -- Building a Coalition to Block Policy Change -- Costs of Participation in Coalitions and Cooperative Lobbying Efforts -- Empirical Issues Concerning Cooperation and Lobbying Success -- Summary -- 7 THE CASE FOR NEOPLURALISM -- Limitations of Previous Studies of Lobbying -- Concentrating on Campaign Contributions and Roll Call Votes -- Examining Single Issues -- Studying Only High-Conflict and Highly Visible Issues -- Solutions to the Research Problems -- Testing Neopluralist Expectations -- Policymaking and Lobbying Are Lengthy Processes Involving Multiple Decisions -- Major Policy Changes Involve Competitive Lobbying -- Government Officials Are Effective Policy Advocates -- Political Parties, Ideology, and Elections Constrain Interest-Group Influence -- The Power of Inertia -- Overcoming the Free Rider Problem -- Institutions Matter -- What Resources Are Important to Lobbying Success? -- Why Do Resources Appear Not to Matter? -- Summary -- 8 EVIDENCE FOR THE EXCHANGE MODEL -- The Supply and Demand for Policy Support -- The Price Officials Charge -- The Price Groups Pay -- Enforcing Exchange Agreements -- The Resources Interest Organizations Provide Policymakers -- Exchanges With Unelected Policymakers -- Implications of Exchange Models for Political Representation -- Implications of Exchange Theory for Lobbying Strategies -- The Role of Private Goods in Lobbying -- A Test of the Exchange Model -- Summary -- 9 BUILDING A MODEL OF LOBBYING -- The Moose Hunt -- Building Coalitions -- Building a Model of Lobbying.
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The Role of Political Institutions and Policymakers' Costs -- Allowing Multiple Winners and Allowing No Winners -- Models of Lobbying for Collective Goods -- A Model That Includes Private and Collective Goods -- Nontechnical Summary of the Lobbying Models -- Resource Allocation Between Private and Collective Goods -- What Firms Want and the Value of Policy Decisions -- A Multivariate Analysis of Lobbying Decisions -- Conclusion -- A More Formal Presentation -- 10 CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS -- What Do Interests Want, and What Strategies Do They Use? -- Interest Organizations Want Private As Well As Collective Goods -- Campaign Contributions -- The Decision to Lobby, Cheap Ride, or Free Ride -- Policymaking in the Bureaucracy -- What Factors Lead to Lobbying Success? -- Defend the Status Quo -- Seek Private Goods Rather Than Collective Goods -- Participate in Established Lobbying Relationships -- What Are the Implications of Our Findings for American Democracy? -- Questions You Must Answer -- APPENDIX: SO YOU WANT TO BECOME A LOBBYIST? -- A General Blueprint of Lobbying -- Substantive Expertise -- Process Expertise: Institutions Matter -- People Expertise -- Summary -- GLOSSARY OF TERMS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-60426-469-1
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-4522-8934-4
Language:
English
Subjects:
Political Science
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