Interest Group Influence in the U. S. Congress
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7329449 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard A Smith (0000-0001-8038-3045) |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 89-89 |
| Publication date | 1995-02-01 |
| 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 | 10.2307/440151 |
| OpenAlex | W2332353828 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 151 |
| References cited | 85 |
This essay critically reviews research published in the last decade that explores how lobbyists and interest groups influence the actions of the U.S. Congress. The research is extensive and contains a rich, but often conflicting, set of findings about the influence of interest groups. The purpose of this essay is to inventory, review, and critique this research in ways that convey as clearly as possible the status of our current understanding of the nature and level of interest group influence in the U.S. Congress
Group (periodic table · Interest group · Physics · Political science · Politics · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Law · Policy Transfer and Learning · Political Influence and Corporate Strategies · Public Administration
The civil rights movement and the logic of social change
Partisan Models and the Search for Party Effects in the US Senate
Interest Group Theory
The Party Faithful
How Parties Nominate Presidents
The Comparative Advantage of State Interest Organization Research
Theories of Parties
The Road Less Taken
Party Coalitions in the US Congress
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
Pursuing Strategic Advantage Through Political Means
The political logics of clean energy transitions
Causes and Consequences of Polarization
Knowledge Exchange Processes in Organizations and Policy Arenas: A Narrative Systematic Review of the Literature
Environmentalism, democracy, and pollution control
The Political Economy of u.s. Foreign Aid
The Oxford handbook of American political parties and interest groups
Understanding congressional coalitions
Budgets and the timing, intensity, and composition of interest group lobbying in the U.S. states
Actual Causes of Death in Relation to Media, Policy, and Funding Attention
Interest Organizations, Information, and Policy Innovation in the U.S. Congress 1 2
Anti-Scientific Americans
Social Movement Size, Organizational Diversity and the Making of Federal Law
Multiplex networks and interest group influence reputation
Parlamentares no presidencialismo de coalizão
Campaign Contributions and U.S. Foreign Policy Outcomes
The Political Role and Influence of Business Organizations
The Interest Group Response to Campaign Finance Reform
Final Lines of Defense
Strategies, access and influence
In defense of the lowly scorecard
The strategic allocation of PAC funds to effective legislators
Upstream influence
Coalition portfolios and interest group influence over the policy process
What do campaign contributions buy? Lobbyists’ strategic giving
Lobbying influence
Corporate Donations to Electoral Campaigns
Electoral Donations as Legal Bribes
The impact of environmental interest groups in international negotiations
A Nested Analysis of Electoral Donations
Stakeholder theory in elections
Calling Out the Troops
Who Stopped the Equal Rights Amendment
Organized interests and administrative rulemaking
Pluralism, corporatism and perception of corruption
Public affairs, issues management and political strategy
Corporate public affairs
Lobbying-Forschung und Interessengruppeneinfluss
Responsiveness or Influence? Whom to Lobby in International Climate Change Negotiations
All Access Points are Not Created Equal
Legislators and interest groups
Evaluation models and evaluation use
An Analysis of Labor Union Participation in U.S. Congressional Hearings
The Incidence and Impact of Policy-Oriented Collective Action
How business lobby networks shaped the U.S. Freedom of Information Act
Interest group PAC contributions and the 1992 regulation of cable television
Profits before patients? Analyzing donors’ economic motives for foreign aid in the health sector
Explaining the unpopularity of public funding for congressional elections
Is Trade Policy for Sale? Congressional Voting on Recent Trade Bills
Determinants of Automobile PAC Contributions to House Incumbents
Rewarding political supporters
How a firm can induce legislators to adopt a bad policy
How to avoid transferring a valuable asset
Lobbying and Nonprofits
Estimating the Effect of Tobacco Contributions on Legislative Behavior Using Panel Data
A Meta‐Analysis of Campaign Contributions' Impact on Roll Call Voting
Lies, Damned Lies, and Campaign Promises? Environmental Legislation in the 105th Congress
The Role of Interest Groups and Group Interests on Gun Legislation in the U.S. House
Uncovering Political Influence by Using Network Analyses and Exploring Contribution/Party Interactions
Professor Smith Goes to Washington
Exploring the proportionality of representation in interest group mobilization and political access
Interest Groups in the European Union
The Religious Dynamics of Decision Making on Gay Rights Issues in the U.S. House of Representatives, 1993–2002
Gaining Access and Constituent Correspondence in the U.S. House of Representatives
Advocacy Organizations in the U.S. Political Process
Com a palavra os nobres deputados
Norway
Partners in Advocacy
Looking for Influence in All the Wrong Places
Gaining access
Democratic politics and policy analysis
Linking citizens to government
Congress, keystone of the Washington establishment
Congressmen's Voting Decisions
Mobilizing Interest Groups in America
Constituent Interest and Congressional Voting
A General Equilibrium Model of Congressional Voting
Committee Assignments, Constituent Preferences, and Campaign Contributions
Long-Term Investing in Politicians; Or, Give Early, Give Often
The Rise and Decline of Nations
PAC Contributions, Lobbying, and Representation
Money in American Elections. Frank J. Sorauf. Glenview, IL
Campaign Contributions and Congressional Voting
Strategic diversity in labor PAC contribution patterns
One Billion Dollars of Influence
Looking for leverage in PAC markets
Money and votes reconsidered
The Political Process
Congress
Money Talks
Congress and the Nuclear Freeze
Variations in the Behavior and Style of State Lobbyists and Interest Groups
The Dimensions of Cue-Taking in the House of Representatives
Recent Developments in Analytical Models of Voting in the U. S. Congress
The Political Efficacy of Lobbying and Money
How Interest Groups Select Issues for Rating Voting Records of Members of the U. S. Congress
American Business, Public Policy, Case-Studies, and Political Theory
More of the Same
Inner Circles or Hollow Cores? Elite Networks in National Policy Systems
The Provision of Benefits by Interest Groups in the United States
What Accent the Heavenly Chorus? Political Equality and the American Pressure System
Money and Access
Access, Record, and Competition as Influences on Interest Group Contributions to Congressional Campaigns
Regulating Lobbyists and Interest Group Influence
Interest Groups and Economic Growth Rates
Organized Interests and Their Issue Niches
Oil PACs and Aggressive Contribution Strategies
Interest groups and policymaking in the American states
Unclogging the Arteries
Artificial Extremism in Interest Group Ratings
PAC Contributions and Congressional Voting on National Defense
Party and PAC Contributions to North Carolina Legislative Candidates
Local Content and Congressional Politics
Educational Policymaking and the Interest Group Structure in France and the United States
Information and Influence
Beyond the Domain
Economic Models of Interest Groups
What Makes PACs Tick? An Analysis of the Allocation Patterns of Economic Interest Groups
Who You Know versus What You Know
Ideology, Interest Group Scores, and Legislative Votes
A Spatial Model of Roll Call Voting
The Role of Lobbyists
PACs and the Congressional Supermarket
Politics and Markets
Group Identities and Individual Influence
Interest Groups and Theories of Power in America
The Logic of Business Unity
The Rise and Fall of Special Interest Politics
Subgovemments as Determinants of Political Viability
Campaign Contributions and Legislative Voting
Lawyers and the Structure of Influence in Washington
Business Political Power
Campaign Contributions in an Unregulated Setting
Congressional Voting on Labor Issues
Who Works with Whom? Interest Group Alliances and Opposition
The Destruction of Issue Monopolies in Congress
The Origins and Maintenance of Interest Groups in America
Buying Time
Interest Representation
Legislators and Interest Groups
Candidate Attributes and PAC Contributions
The Political Economy of Group Membership
Campaign Contributions and Legislative Outcomes
"A Theoretical Analysis of the "Green Lobby
Was 1980 Special? A Comparison of 1980 and 1986 Corporate PAC Contributions
Myopic Methods
| Unique citing works | 151 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,87 |
| Citation span | 1995 - 2025 (31) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 150 |