Does firm size matter? Analyzing business lobbying in the United States

Business and Politics

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 1-17

  Drope, Jeffrey M ^a   Hansen, Wendy L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Lobbying; Sample selection

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748780895     PISSN: 14693569     EISSN: 14693569     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1469-3569.1160     Document Type: Article

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