Book chapter
The Education of Special Interests
Educated by Initiative, p.87
University of Michigan Press
11/12/2009
DOI: 10.3998/mpub.11467.9
Abstract
Progressive Era reformers expressed high hopes that the initiative process would help eliminate or at least curtail the power of special interests, particularly within the legislative process. At the time, the corrosive influence of corporate interests was visible in many state legislatures, as party bosses and their legislative minions frequently succumbed to the pressures of the business lobby.¹ In his seminal treatise,Direct Legislation by the Citizenship through the Initiative and Referendum, James W. Sullivan partially justified citizen lawmaking on the grounds that “Congress and the legislatures have each a permanent lobby, buying privileges for corporations, and otherwise influencing and
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- The Education of Special Interests
- Creators
- Daniel A. SmithCaroline J. Tolbert
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Educated by Initiative, p.87
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- DOI
- 10.3998/mpub.11467.9
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 11/12/2009
- Academic Unit
- Political Science; Public Policy Center (Archive); Center for Social Science Innovation
- Record Identifier
- 9983989283002771
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