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Bouwen, Pieter - 2001

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Incentives to cultivate special interest groups under alternative electoral systems

Myerson, Roger B. - 1992

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American political interest groups. Readings in theory and research

Zisk, Betty H. (ed.) - 1969

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A Dynamic Model of Member Participation in Interest Groups

Holyoke, Thomas - 2011

We know a great deal about how and why interest groups form, why individuals choose to give their time and resources to political organizations, but we know very little about why they stay in these organizations, if, in fact, they tend to. Are participation rates by members constant over time,...

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Interest Groups, Political Institutions and Strategic Choices : What Influences Institutional Lobbying Strategies?

McQuide, Bryan - 2010

given their internal resources (lobbying staff, budget, group type) and external political environment they face. Interest … interest groups to take advantage of the political climate? This study utilizes lobbying disclosure report datasets from 1999 …-2009 that have been made available as a result of the 1995 Lobbying Disclosure Act and subsequent updates made by Congress in …

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Social Capital, Lobbying and Community-Based Interest Groups

Chamlee-Wright, Emily L. - 2011

) the role social capital plays in facilitating lobbying and rent seeking, and (2) the possibility that the availability of … toward lobbying and rent seeking. This article examines the relationship between social capital and lobbying in New Orleans …

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Lobbying the European Parliament : A Necessary Evil

Rasmussen, Maja Kluger - 2011

While the European Parliament is in many ways more transparent and more accessible than many of the EU's national parliaments, the code of conduct for lobbyists and the Parliament's own Rules of Procedure are rather vague. As a result of the ‘cash for laws' scandal, the EP President, Jerzy...

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Governing Interest Groups and Rent Dissipation

Epstein, Gil S. - 2011

In a contest group-specific public goods we consider the effect that managing an interest group has on the rent dissipation and the total expected payoffs of the contest. While in the first group, there is a central planner determining its members' expenditure in the contest, in the second group...

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Direct Selling Corporate Lobbying in the European Union : An Overview

Tokaji-Nagy, Orsolya - 2012

Corporate lobbying techniques and strategies of three leading direct selling firms are presented, compared and analyzed …

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Special Interests after Citizens United : Access, Replacement, and Interest Group Response to Legal Change

Issacharoff, Samuel - 2013

The legal literature on campaign finance law and the political science literature on how and why interest groups mobilize use different methodologies to get at overlapping issues. This review integrates some of these insights to better understand the relationship between interest group...

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