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- BOTTOM LINE. // Hill;2/3/2009, Vol. 16 Issue 13, p10
The article offers updates on the lobbying efforts in various sectors in the U.S. including, Alston & Bird for Rupari Food Services, GSP Consulting Corp. for Electric Motor and Supply, and Washington Tax Group for LS Power Associates.
- Lobbying governments: Who, how and why. Fleischmann, George // Business Quarterly;Winter93, Vol. 58 Issue 2, p22
Discusses various aspects of lobbying in Canada. Shift of the political power structure; Steps to successful lobbying; Environment as an issue; Dependence on outrageous statements and actions to attract media attention.
- Handful of Democrats joining conservative lobbying group. Strahler, Steven R. // Crain's Chicago Business;10/2/95, Vol. 18 Issue 40, p37
Reports on the activities of the lobbyist group Illinois Public Policy Causes. Items in the conservative agenda; Motives of Democratic lawmakers who have decided to join the group; Prospect of developing bipartisan consensus on pet topics.
- Easing the pressure on pressure groups: Toward a constitutional right to lobby. Thomas, Andrew P. // Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy;Winter93, Vol. 16 Issue 1, p149
Focuses on the political practice of lobbying in the United States. Background on lobbying; Federal government's attempts to regulate lobbying; Judiciary's attitude concerning lobbying; Evaluation of lobbying-related laws.
- Societal complexity and interest-group lobbying in the American states. Hunter, K.G.; Wilson, L.A. // Journal of Politics;May91, Vol. 53 Issue 2, p488
Tests the hypothesis that societal complexity is the fundamental cause of group activity by lobbyists. Increase, in the past few decades, in the amount of legislative lobbying; Contention that as society becomes more complex, lobbying should increase as well; Data; Registration laws; State...
- The provision of benefits by interest groups in the United States. King, David C.; Walker, Jack L. // Journal of Politics;May92, Vol. 54 Issue 2, p394
Gives a detailed account of what membership benefits are provided by interest groups and places these results in the context of a typology of groups. A sample of nearly 900 voluntary association was used. Theoretical background; Data; The benefits supplied by interest groups.
- Regulating lobbyists and interest group influence. Ainsworth, Scott // Journal of Politics;Feb93, Vol. 55 Issue 1, p41
Analyzes how legislators structure their interactions with lobbyists so as to limit the undue influence of certain interest groups. Lobbyists' tactics and group impact; Importance of access; Communications about intentions versus those that relay information about the structures of the game;...
- LET'S DO LUNCH! Jacobson, Louis; Zeller, Shawn // National Journal;1/18/2003, Vol. 35 Issue 3, p188
Discusses trends in congressional lobbying in the U.S., as of January 2003. Personnel changes in the Senate Republican lineup; House Democrats who have no aides working as a lobbyist; Lobbyists who decided to stay on or return to their political posts.
- Campaign spending. // Psychology Today;Oct84, Vol. 18 Issue 10, p46
Political Action Committees (PACs) attract ideologues bent on transforming, not destroying, their parties. They are still partisans, but they are less committed to the party-as-an-institution than to the party-as-a-vehicle for strong policy preferences. A new fusion of PAC and party supporters...
- `Hello, my name is...'. // Restaurant Business;11/1/93, Vol. 92 Issue 16, p46
Reports on the difficulty faced by lobbyists in courting California's state legislature. Exodus of lawmakers because of term limitations; Necessity for grassroots network.
