Persuade Your Foes or Inform your Friends? Partisan Context and Adaptive Lobbying Strategy

• In Event: Interest Groups and Lobbying in the U.S.

Brief Overview

We report results from a conjoint experiment in a survey of lobbyists and policy advocates. We infer preferred lobbying strategies through respondents' choices of argument and target, conditioned by partisan alignment and issue salience.

Authors

• Tim M. LaPira, James Madison University

• Isabel Laterzo, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

• Herschel F. Thomas, University of Texas at Austin