The Organization of Federal Agency Lobbying

• In Event: Influence and Power in American Bureaucracies

Brief Overview

In interacting with the federal bureaucracy, lobbyists have over one hundred large agencies which they could contact. We study what explains lobbyists' choices. We find a small role for partisanship, and a large role for substantive policy domains.

Authors

• Peter Bils, Vanderbilt University

• Richard DiSalvo, Princeton University