Funding faction or buying silence? Grants, contracts, and interest group lobbying behavior

Policy Studies Journal

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 17-35

  Leech, Beth L ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Advocacy; Charitable organizations; Federal grants; Government contracts; Interest groups; Lobbying; Organized interests; Tax exempt organizations

Indexed keywords

TAX SYSTEM;

EID: 33645058401     PISSN: 0190292X     EISSN: 15410072     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0072.2006.00143.x     Document Type: Article

References (38)

1. Baumgartner, Frank R., and Beth L. Leech. 1998. Basic Interests: The Importance of Groups in Politics and in Political Science. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
2. Baumgartner, Frank R., and Beth L. Leech. 2000. Lobbying Disclosure Reports Data Set. http://lobby.la.psu.edu/related.html. Accessed Oct. 15, 2005.
3. Bass, Gary D., Kay Guinane, and Ryan Turner. 2003. "An Attack on Nonprofit Speech: Death by a Thousand Cuts" Washington, DC: OMBWatch. http://www.ombwatch.org/filemanager/fileview/35/. Accessed Oct. 15, 2005.
4. Beck, Bertram M. 1970. "The Voluntary Social Welfare Agency: A Reassessment."Social Service Review 44.
5. Bennett, James T., and Thomas J. DiLorenzo. 1985. Destroying Democracy: How Government Funds Partisan Politics. Washington, DC: Cato Institute.
6. Berry, Jeffrey M. 1977. Lobbying for the People: The Political Behavior of Public Interest Groups. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
7. Berry, Jeffrey M., and David F. Arons. 2003. A Voice for Nonprofits. Washington, DC: Brookings.
8. Buchanan, James M. 1980. "Rent Seeking and Profit Seeking" In Toward a Theory of the Rent-Seeking Society, ed. James M. Buchanan, Robert D. Tollison, and Gordon Tullock. College Station: Texas A&M University Press.
9. Buchanan, James M., Robert D. Tollison, and Gordon Tullock, eds. 1980. Toward a Theory of the Rent-Seeking Society. College Station: Texas A&M Press.
10. Campbell, Andrea. 2003. How Policies Create Citizens. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
11. Gais, Thomas L., and Jack L. Walker, Jr. 1991. "Pathways to Influence in American Politics" In Mobilizing Interest Groups in America. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.
12. Gallagher, Janne G. 1995. "Lobbying and Political Activity Restrictions for Federal Grantees and Contractors: A Comparison of Federal Law and Regulation" Let America Speak Coalition. http://www.ombwatch.org/las/1995/galrpt.html. Accessed Oct. 15, 2005.
13. Galston, Miriam. 1993. "Lobbying and the Public Interest: Rethinking the Internal Revenue Code's Treatment of Legislative Activities" Texas Law Review 71: 12691-354.
14. Gelbart, Marcia. 1997. "'Truth in Testimony' Rule Boomerangs Against GOP Sponsors" The Hill, Feb. 5.
15. Gray, Virginia, David Lowery, Matthew Fellowes, and Jennifer Anderson. 2005. "Understanding the Demand Side of Lobbying: Interest System Energy in the American States" American Politics Research (forthcoming).
16. Hojnacki, Marie. 1997. "Interest Groups' Decisions to Join Alliances or Work Alone" American Journal of Political Science 41: 618-7.
17. Hojnacki, Marie, and David C. Kimball. 1998. "Organized Interests and the Decision of Whom to Lobby in Congress" American Political Science Review 92 (4): 7759-0.
18. Hojnacki, Marie, and David C. Kimball. 1999. "The Who and How of Organized Interests' Lobbying Strategies in Committee" Journal of Politics 61: 9991-024.
19. Independent Sector. 2001. The New Nonprofit Sector in Brief.
20. Internal Revenue Service. Political and Lobbying Activiies. 2004. http://www.irs.gov/charities/charitable/article/0,,id=120703,00.html
21. Kollman, Ken. 1998. Outside Lobbying: Public Opinion and Interest Group Strategies. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
22. Leech, Beth L. 1998. Lobbying Strategies of American Interest Groups. PhD diss., Texas A&M University.
23. Leech, Beth L., Frank R. Baumgartner, Timothy La Pira, and Nicholas Semanko. 2005. "Drawing Lobbyists to Washington: Government Activity and the Demand for Advocacy" Political Research Quarterly 58: 193-0.
24. Lowery, David. 2005. "Why Do Organized Interests Lobby? A Multi-Goal, Multi-Context Theory of Lobbying" Universiteit van Leiden, Leiden, the Netherlands. Typescript.
25. Lowery, David, and Holly Brasher. 2003. Organized Interests and American Government. New York: McGraw Hill.
26. Lowery, David, Virginia Gray, Matthew Fellowes, and Jennifer Anderson. 2004. "Living in the Moment: Lags, Leads, and the Links Between Legislative Agendas and Interest Advocacy" Social Science Quarterly 85 (2): 4637-7.
27. Mansbridge, Jane J. 1992. "A Deliberative Theory of Interest Representation. " In The Politics of Interests: Interest Groups Transformed, ed. Mark P. Petracca. Boulder, CO: Westview Pres.
28. McFarland, Andrew S. 2004. Neopluralism: The Evolution of Political Process Theory. Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Press.
29. McKay, Amy, and Susan Webb Yackee. 2004. "Does the Squeaky Wheel Get the Grease? Interest Group Influence on the Bureaucracy" Presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April.
30. Olson, Mancur, Jr. 1971. The Logic of Collective Action. 2nd ed. Cambridge, MA: Harvard.
31. Parker, Glenn R. 1996. Congress and the Rent-Seeking Society. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.
32. Schlozman, Kay Lehman, and John T. Tierney. 1986. Organized Interests and American Democracy. New York: Harper and Row.
33. Smith, Steven Rathgeb, and Michael Lipsky. 1993. Nonprofits for Hire: The Welfare State in the Age of Contracting. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
34. Tollison, Robert D., and Robert E. McCormick. 1981. Politicians, Legislation, and the Economy. Boston: Martinus Nijhoff.
35. Tullock, Gordon. 1967. "The Welfare Costs of Tariffs, Monopolies, and Theft" Western Economic Journal 5: 2243-2.
36. Walker, Jack L., Jr. 1991. Mobilizing Interest Groups in America: Patrons, Professions, and Social Movements. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.
37. Weinstein, Kenneth R., and August Stofferahn. 1996. "Congressional Hearings and the Culture of Spending: A Government Reform Project Study" The Heritage Foundation. Backgrounder No. 1099, Dec. 19.
38. Wittmann, Marshall, and Charles P. Griffin. 1995. "Restoring Integrity to Government: Ending Taxpayer-Subsidized Lobbying Activities" Backgrounder No. 1040, July 12. http://www.heritage.org/research/governmentreform/bg1040.cfm