On the advantages of a well-constructed lobbying system: toward a more democratic, modern lobbying processSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 6 - Trang 290-310 - 2017
Lee Drutman, Christine Mahoney
The American lobbying information processing system is woefully outdated. The mechanisms by which citizen, interest group, and business concerns are incorporated into the policymaking process have largely not been updated in over 200 years. Lobbyists set up meetings with staffers and members of Congress and share position papers with them about their arguments on a given policy issue. There is no ...... hiện toàn bộ
Approaching the legitimacy of self-appointed representatives: from responsiveness to reflexivitySpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 11 - Trang 416-433 - 2022
Jessica Nuske
The paper offers an extensive theoretical discussion of and a contribution to the highly relevant, controversial, and normatively charged debate on the legitimacy of interest groups as non-elected, self-appointed representatives. The contribution of this paper is twofold. First, the paper juxtaposes two diverging approaches on legitimacy of interest groups, namely responsiveness as a means to achi...... hiện toàn bộ
Formal ties between interest groups and members of parliament: Gaining allies in legislative committeesSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - - 2017
Steven Eichenberger, André Mach
While previous research on interest groups’ (IGs) relations to MPs has mainly focused on informal lobbying strategies or interorganizational linkages, the analysis of formal ties between MPs and IGs has remained neglected. Such formal ties can be conceptualized as an exchange relationship between individual MPs and IGs. The latter benefit from access to parliament while the former benefit from the...... hiện toàn bộ
Can the Red Queen help? A new approach to explaining the formation of interest groups in the USASpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 7 - Trang 61-81 - 2018
Anthony J. Nownes, Curtis Bell
This article uses the theory of Red Queen competition to predict patterns in the founding of nationally active interest groups in the USA. The theory of Red Queen competition holds that competition among groups in a population is history-dependent such that each organization’s competitiveness is a function of its historical experience. The theory predicts that: (1) a population relatively full of ...... hiện toàn bộ
Who litigates and who collaborates? Evidence from environmental groups influencing National Forest managementSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 2 - Trang 163-184 - 2013
Caitlin A Burke
Natural resource decision making is changing. Previously, federal agencies made decisions about public lands and resources with one-way input from user groups and the public, but now agencies are collaborating more with stakeholders and the public to develop alternatives and choose a course of action. Changes in decision-making venues and procedures can have an impact on the representation of diff...... hiện toàn bộ
Brexit, interest groups and changes to the ‘logic of negotiation’: a research noteSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 9 - Trang 541-551 - 2020
Did the Brexit lead to a decline in interest group influence in British government? This research note reports on a survey of 268 public affairs professionals and examines whether the ‘bandwidth’ taken up by Brexit diminished the areas of domestic policy that groups might seek to influence and whether groups found it harder to engage with government in the 3 years up to 2020. The figures indicate ...... hiện toàn bộ
Transparency! Transparency? Comparing the new lobbying legislation in Ireland and the UKSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - - 2017
Sean Keeling, Sharon Feeney, John Hogan
This paper analyses the strength of the new laws regulating lobbying in Ireland and the United Kingdom (UK). This examination was conducted using the Centre for Public Integrity’s (CPI) “Hired Guns” quantitative method for assessing the stringency of lobbying legislation. These laws were introduced, after years of unfulfilled promises and scandals, in an effort to increase the public’s trust in th...... hiện toàn bộ