this event, firms with little or no prior exposure to the federal accounts that experienced cuts reduced their lobbying … spending. In contrast, firms with a high degree of exposure to the cuts maintained and even increased their lobbying spending … likely intensified their lobbying efforts to distinguish themselves from the others and improve their chances of procuring a …

In this article we carry out a descriptive analysis of lobbying expenditures on migration in the USA between 1998 and … 2005. While political action committees (PAC) contributions and lobbying are in general positively correlated, our results … suggest that this is not the case when it comes to lobbying on migration. As a result, any analysis of the role of lobbying in …