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The Social Process of Lobbying - Cooperation or Collusion? (Paperback)
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The Social Process of Lobbying - Cooperation or Collusion? (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Research in American Politics and Governance
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Despite a wealth of theorizing and research about each concept,
lobbying and norms still raise a number of interesting issues. Why
do lobbyists and politicians engage in cooperative behavior? How
does cooperative behavior in lobbying affect policy making? If
democratic participation is good, why do we view lobbying as bad?
Lobbying engenders debate about its effects on the political
process and on policy development. Sociologists and other social
scientists remain concerned about how norms emerge, the content of
norms, how widely they are distributed, and how they are enforced.
Political scientists study how interest groups work together and
influence the political process. Based on the experience of the
author, a former lobbyist, this book looks at the social norms of
lobbying and how such norms work in a general framework of other
norms and legal institutions in the political process. In
developing this argument, John C. Scott claims that: Embedded
social relationships and trust-based social norms underpin everyday
interactions among policy actors. These relationships and norms
have concrete impacts on the policy making process. Social
relationships and norms inhibit participation in the political
process by outside actors. The investigation is conducted through
an innovative theoretical framework, combining existing theoretical
perspectives from different disciplines, and using a variety of
data and methods, including longitudinal quantitative and social
network data, interviews with lobbyists, activists, and
policymakers, and anecdotal and historical examples. The Social
Process of Lobbying provides refreshingly new empirical evidence
and theoretical analysis on how networks of trust are neither all
good nor all bad but are ambivalent: they can both improve policy
and fuel collusion.
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