of exchange.' While the institutions, and especially the Commission, need information, expertise and legitimacy provided by interest groups, in exchange they must provide political and financial support to interest organizations they associate with in the development and implementation of public policies....
Lobbyists and Interest Groups: Sources of Information This report is a guide for locating governmental sources that maintain files on lobby groups, their registrations, and finances. Also included in this report are nongovernmental sources that offer background information on the lobbyists ... ZL Wa...
Representative governments thrive when the ‘people are offered a “say” in the state’s effort to regulate or augment the power of corporate, legal, and bureaucratic institutions’ (Miller1988, p. 101). In domestic politics, like-minded citizens can form interest groups when they collectively ...
Lobbying is a form of advocacy with the intention of persuading the government undertaken by individuals and private interest groups to promote individual and/or business interests.Answer and Explanation: A lobbyist is a person who persuades/influences the government to enact legislation that will ...
The only difference between a K-Street lobbyists and you is that you don’t have any power. You can write a letter to your congressman; the K-Street lobbyist can write a check to his campaign. So lobbying, per se, is not the problem. The problem is that congress is for sale. ...
What's the difference between an in-house and a contract lobbyist? Contract lobbyists have a vested interest in seeing their clients succeed:retaining their business. Most in-house lobbyists are judged by more than just their lobbying performance. ... Contract lobbyists, however, know their bur...
More U.S. cities are paying to lobby Congress and they have a strategy to maximize their influence The influence of lobbyists and lobbying by corporations and interest groups has become a fact of life in Washington D.C. In new research, Matt W. Loftis and Jaclyn J. Kettler find that U...
Recently, there has been a rapid rise in the number of pay-for-performance programs globally that offer physicians and medical groups financial incentives for meeting primary healthcare goals. What ma Do you think there should be a difference in the services for Medicaid vs the coverage i...
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“The question is, essentially, is the person acting as a congressional staffer but being paid by somebody else, and generally speaking, I would think there is a difference between having a kitchen cabinet and having somebody involved in hiring decisions,” Rappaport said. Public Citizen’s Cra...