In, Frank Baumgartner and Beth Leech characterized a series of problems in the interest
group research published between 1950 and 1995. In this article, we assess whether recent …

Policy interest in the basic income (BI) proposal is booming, but remarkably little attention is
spent on systematically examining political strategies to build robust enabling coalitions in …

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 …

This book presents the first large-scale study of lobbying strategies and outcomes in the
United States and the European Union, two of the most powerful political systems in the …

Coalition lobbying is one of the most frequently employed influence tactics used by interest
groups today. Yet, surprisingly, the existing literature measuring its policy effects finds either …

Interest groups struggle to build reputations as influential actors in the policy process and to
discern the influence exercised by others. This study conceptualizes influence reputation as …

Nearly every scholarly work on lobbying mentions networking of one type or another (Heclo
1978; Sabatier 1988; Salisbury et al. 1987). Advocates share tidbits of information after …

This paper studies the relation between coalition structures in policy processes and policy
change. While different factors such as policy images, learning processes, external events …

We analyze affiliation networks of interest groups that endorse the same candidates in
primary elections, donate to the same candidates in general elections, and voice support for …

Assuming a position as broker between disconnected interests is one way for an interest
group to influence the making of federal health policy. This study demonstrates how groups …