What explains differences in the lobbying behaviour of interest groups? And what
consequences do these differences have for the access that interest groups can gain to …

Considered the gold standard on interest group politics, this widely-used text analyzes
interest groups within the intuitive framework of democratic theory, enabling readers to …

Background To support public health researchers and advocates seeking to challenge the
influence of powerful commercial actors on health, it is necessary to develop a deeper …

Existing literature has offered a variety of claims regarding why financial regulatory politics
features a relative dominance of the regulated financial industry. In this article, we explore …

Nearly half of all lobbying activity targeting specific bills between 1998 and 2012 happened
after the Congress passed legislation, yet existing theories of lobbying generally fail to …

Government officers are key players in designing and implementing public policies. Not
surprisingly, a growing body of research approaches their connections with other …

While much progress has been made in empirically mapping and analysing a variety of
interest group activities in the last decade, less attention has been devoted to conceptual …

Formal Models of Domestic Politics offers a unified and accessible approach to canonical
and important new models of politics. Intended for political science and economics students …

When and why do individual companies lobby on environmental policies? Given the
structural strength of business interests, the answer to this question is important for …

Abstract Background The World Health Organization (WHO) Framework Convention on
Tobacco Control (FCTC) stands to significantly reduce tobacco-related mortality by …