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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"interest group influence"”.
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Interest group influence on sex education policy in Utah: A cultural perspective
… the education and social policy process of Utah. Interest group influence is tested, and Utah history and Mormon sexual culture are discussed. The influence of historical and cultural forces on policy, through the medium of interest groups, is explored. Strong indications of group influence are …
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Planting the seeds of biotechnology : interest group influence on USDA agricultural research
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1992.
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Interest group influence in the formulation of official development assistance policy: The Canadian foreign policy review of 1994.
… public hearings across Canada in 1994, to which interest groups made submissions. This study attempts to discover to what degree interest groups influenced development assistance policy in the review. Comparing the substance of these groups' representations against the subsequent Committee's …
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Information & Interest Group Lobbying in Congress: Policy vs. Political Information
… to an increased understanding of the sources of interest group influence, the nature of informational lobbying in Congress and how Congress responds to new issues on the policy agenda.
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The influence of the Finnish forestry industry’s interest groups on the EU Nature Restoration Law: framing forestry as environmentally and economically important while resisting EU governance in forestry
The research looks at how the Finnish forestry interest representation groups and forestry industry companies influenced the EU regulation on nature restoration, more commonly known as the Nature Restoration Law (NRL), by looking at the frames they employed in their public lobbying tactics in their …
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Defeating Cap-and-Trade: Contrarian Access, Organised Disinformation, and the Influence of Fossil Fuel Money in Congress
… and the broader climate change counter-movement influenced the U.S. congressional debate over cap-and-trade legislation between 2003 and 2010. While extensive scholarship has traced the ideological and institutional foundations of climate denial, less attention has been paid to how organised …
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The Political Economy of U.S. Public Pension Plans and Their Unfunded Liabilities
… along with the theory of "capture" by special interest groups, and a combined model of the two. With panel data from 2001 to 2009, the paper finds that the combined model provides the strongest explanation for the current levels of unfunded liabilities; hence, both median voter preferences and …
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Essays on political economy
… examine mass media's role in countering special interest group influence by studying county-level support for US Senate candidates from 1980 to 2002. I use the concentration of campaign contributions from Political Action Committees to proxy capture of politicians by special interests, and …