Journal article
Business as usual: Interest group access and representation across policy-making venues
Journal of Public Policy, Vol.33(1), pp.3-33
2013
DOI: 10.1017/S0143814X12000207
Abstract
Abstract We provide the first comprehensive study of lobbying across venues by studying interest group registrations in both the legislative and administrative branches. We present four major findings based on Federal and state data. Firstly, groups engage in substantial administrative lobbying relative to legislative lobbying. Secondly, the vast majority of groups lobby the legislature, but a large proportion of groups also lobby the bureaucracy. Thirdly, representational biases in legislative lobbying are replicated across venues: business groups dominate administrative lobbying at least as much as they do legislative lobbying. Finally, the level of interest group activity in one venue for a given policy area is strongly related to its level in the other venue. The findings potentially have important implications for the impact of institutional design on both the form and promotion of broad participation in policy-making as well as the ultimate content of policies chosen by democratic governments, broadly construed.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Business as usual: Interest group access and representation across policy-making venues
- Creators
- Frederick J BoehmkeSean GailmardJohn W Patty
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of Public Policy, Vol.33(1), pp.3-33
- DOI
- 10.1017/S0143814X12000207
- ISSN
- 1469-7815
- eISSN
- 1469-7815
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2013
- Academic Unit
- Political Science; Public Policy Center (Archive)
- Record Identifier
- 9983921860302771
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