social sciences has widely discussed lobbying dynamics in the private sector. However, governments lobby governments, too. In … the United States, lobbying is a popular strategy for state and local governments to obtain resources from and influence … this phenomenon. This Element provides a comprehensive study of intergovernmental lobbying activities in the United States …

access to the bureaucracy. We develop an information exchange theory that portrays the impact of agency design choices on … there is evidence of legislators' use of agency design to insulate the bureaucracy from elected officials, little is known … offered by a given group. We test our theory with two original datasets that include design parameters of US state …