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Social Process of Lobbying: Cooperation or Collusion?
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The Social Process of Lobbying

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 policy makers, 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.

John C. Scott is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research interests include social network analysis of political and social phenomena as well as social policies related to aging populations.

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19 The Social Process of Lobbying
Cooperation or Collusion?
John C. Scott

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The right of John C. Scott to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Scott, John C., 1963

Social process of lobbying : cooperation or collusion? / by John C. Scott.

pages cm. (Routledge research in American politics and

governance ; 19)

1. LobbyingUnited States. 2. Interpersonal relationsPolitical

aspectsUnited States. 3. LegislationUnited States. I. Title.

JK1118.S444 2014
324.40973dc23
2014030804

ISBN: 978-0-415-72717-4 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-85562-2 (ebk)

Typeset in Sabon
by Apex CoVantage, LLC

To Meredith, for your love and support during a long journey together. And to my parents for getting me started.

Contents

Many people helped me along what turned out to be a very long path. First, my former professional colleagues in Washington, D.C., many of whom consented to being interviewed, gave me a deep appreciation for the work that policy advocates do, and I have always appreciated their intelligence and good humor.

Several academic colleagues were helpful in the specific development of this book, which was originally my doctoral thesis. Victor Nee first suggested the topic when I was in graduate school, and Sid Tarrow, Doug Heckathorn and Richard Swedberg provided patient and critical advice at several points. Dan Gitterman at UNC provided a useful prod when I was struggling to get things done.

Several reviewers and commentators at conferences shaped the direction of this project in many ways.

The National Science Foundation provided a critical source of funding via the doctoral dissertation improvement grant (Award No. 0602388), and the Center for the Study of the Economy and Society at Cornell University also provided needed support.

Char Lloyd, Om Patel, and Jeff Summerlin-Long were very helpful in helping in collecting and processing the data.

My wife Meredith and my children Rosslyn and Lincoln were a constant source of love and support. Without them, it would not have been possible to do this.

Americans continue to suffer from a notoriously short attention span. They get mad as hell with reasonable frequency but quickly return to their families and sitcoms. Meanwhile, the corporate lobbies stay right where they are, outlasting all the populist hysteria.

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