The Role of Legislators in the Determination of Interest Group Influence
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6300329 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Scott H Ainsworth (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 517 |
| Publication date | 1997-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Legislative Studies Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0362-9805 • E-ISSN: 1939-9162 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.2307/440341 |
| OpenAlex | W2320458048 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 75 |
| References cited | 26 |
In addition to structuring the rules governing legislator-lobbyist interactions, legislators also affect their interactions with lobbyists by promoting lobbying enterprises, which are groups of like-minded lobbyists and their legislative allies, all of whom seek to coordinate their efforts. The long-term relationships inherent in lobbying enterprises reduce uncertainties, insure ready access to legislators, and allow lobbyists to reach undecided legislators indirectly. Lobbying enterprises complement staff systems, the committee system, and members' constituent contact committees. This article concludes with specific suggestions for incorporating concepts developed here into empirical and formal theoretic work on lobbying influence
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Interest Group Theory
The Party Faithful
How Parties Nominate Presidents
The Comparative Advantage of State Interest Organization Research
Theories of Parties
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Social and Economic Justice Movements and Organizations
Who Sings in the Heavenly Chorus?
Party Nominating Procedures and Recruitment—State and Local Level
Activists, Influence, and Representation in American Elections
Methodological Issues in the Study of Political Parties
Political Parties and Consultants
State Parties Research
The Mobilization and Influence of Business Interests
What a Difference Twenty-Five Years Makes
Interest Groups and Agendas
Interest Groups in American Elections
The State of Research on Political Parties and Interest Groups
The Evolution of National Party Organizations
Lobbying and Influence
Urban Interest Groups
The Evolution and Alteration of American Party Coalitions
The Pure Partisan Institution
Linking Political Parties and Interest Groups
The President, Party Politics, and Constitutional Development
Winning Isn't Everything
Methodological Perspectives on Interest Groups
American Political Parties
The Oxford handbook of American political parties and interest groups
Strategies, access and influence
A theoretical foundation for assessing principal-agent problems in lobbying ethics and an empirical test
The power dynamics of campaign contributions and legislative rhetoric
Lobbying the lobbyists
Walk this way, talk this way
A dynamic model of member participation in interest groups
Regulating legislative lobbying in Switzerland
Rational lobbying and EU climate policy
Who Stopped the Equal Rights Amendment
Regulating Australia's lobbyists
Exploring Competition and Bargaining among Interest Group Lobbyists in Washington
When Do Challengers Succeed? Nongovernmental Actors, Administrative Agencies, and Legal Change
Interest Group Competition and Cooperation at Legislative Hearings
Money and rhetoric
Why hospitals hire tobacco lobbyists
Persuasive lobbying and the value of connections
Counteractive Lobbying in the U.S. Supreme Court
Assessing the Impact of Legislative Lobbying Regulations on Interest Group Influence in U.S. State Legislatures
Access to Proposers and Influence in Collective Policy Making
Social Lobbying
Partners in Advocacy
The Evolution of Legislative Jurisdictions
Revolving Door Lobbyists and the Value of Congressional Staff Connections
Targeted Issue Advertising and Legislative Strategy
Steering Agencies with Short‐Term Authorizations
The Influence of Cause and Sectional Group Lobbying on Government Responsiveness
Standing in a Crowded Room
Commitments, Transnational Interests, and Congress
Strategic Lobbying and the Pressure to Compromise Member Interests
Legislative Diversity and the Rise of Women Lobbyists
Legislation, Political Context, and Interest Group Behavior
Campaign Contributions and Access to Congressional Offices
State autonomy & civil society
Informational Lobbying and Legislative Voting
Persuasive Lobbying with Allied Legislators
Interest Group Competition and Coalition Formation
Cue‐Taking in Congress
Friendly Lobbying under Time Pressure
The Declining Value of Revolving‐Door Lobbyists
How do Public Officials Learn About Policy? A Field Experiment on Policy Diffusion
Keepin’ on the Sunny Side
Lobbying as Legislative Subsidy
Organized Interests and the Decision of Whom to Lobby in Congress
The People's Intervention
How organizations are represented in Washington.
Congressmen's Voting Decisions
Mobilizing Interest Groups in America
Strategic Information Transmission
PAC Contributions, Lobbying, and Representation
The Logic of Collective Action
PACs, lobbies and political conflict
Congress
Access, Record, and Competition as Influences on Interest Group Contributions to Congressional Campaigns
Regulating Lobbyists and Interest Group Influence
Information and Influence
Beyond the Domain
Ideology, Interest Group Scores, and Legislative Votes
Theory and Evidence for Counteractive Lobbying
The New Economics of Organization
"The Multiple Ambiguities of "Counteractive Lobbying
Interest Groups, Iron Triangles and Representative Institutions in American National Government
Farquharson and Fenno
Elections, Coalitions, and Legislative Outcomes
The Origins and Maintenance of Interest Groups in America
Buying Time
Interest Representation
Toward a Diachronic Analysis of Congress
Campaign Contributions and Legislative Outcomes
| Unique citing works | 75 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,68 |
| Citation span | 1998 - 2025 (28) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 75 |