Should We Go Steady? Patterns of Cooperative Lobbying Behavior Among Forestry Advocacy Groups in France and Sweden
Studies of advocacy group behavior often focus on the technical and political information that groups provide to policymakers. However, for groups to be effective lobbyists, they also need information; specifically, they need procedural information about the policymaking process, such as what policies are being considered, when, and by whom. This procedural information is not automatically available to groups; instead different policymaking contexts give groups varying levels of certainty about what is going on in the policymaking process. I argue that the level of informational availability and certainty is critical for groups, and that we can see its importance in the patterns of cooperative lobbying among groups. I hypothesize that where there is high procedural-information availability and certainty, groups will pursue ad hoc joint lobbying on a case-by-case basis; conversely, where there is low procedural-information availability and certainty, groups will institutionalize their joint lobbying in order to increase the likelihood of successful joint lobbying when response time is short. Preliminary interviews with forestry advocacy groups in France and Sweden lend support to this hypothesis
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2009
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Authors: | Matthews Luxon, Emily O. |
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[S.l.] : SSRN |
Subject: | Frankreich | France | Schweden | Sweden | Interessenpolitik | Lobbying | Forstwirtschaft | Forestry |
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