"Lobbying and Policy Change" 20 years later
Longitudinal study revisits 98 lobbying issues, finding policy changes over 20 years. Financial resources not sole predictor of success, presidential advocacy key, venue changes common.
fbaum.unc.edu"Lobbying and Policy Change" 20 years later
Longitudinal study revisits 98 lobbying issues, finding policy changes over 20 years. Financial resources not sole predictor of success, presidential advocacy key, venue changes common.
fbaum.unc.edufederal policy as evidence for enacting the change.
The dominant political forces will be those beneath median income and those in the upper quarter, with the rest being between the two. There will also be an ideological realignment of a retreating Reagan-era free-market group, a resurgent class who are focused on outcome, and the outcome they will want is a redistribution of income and even of alre
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22 Monica Martinez-Bravo, Gerard Padro-i-Miquel, Nancy Qian, and Yang Yao, “Accountability in an Authoritarian Regime: The Impact of Local Electoral Reforms in Rural China,” Yale University (2010), manuscript.