Lobbying, Political Uncertainty and Policy Outcomes

• Main Author: Koehler, Sebastian (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Public policy.; Legislative bodies.; Political science.; Democracy.; Sociophysics.; Econophysics.; Statistics .; Public Policy.; Legislative and Executive Politics.; Governance and Government.; Data-driven Science, Modeling and Theory Building.; Statistics for Social Sciences, Humanities, Law.

Despite much recent research, our understanding of interest groups' choice of strategy when trying to influence public policy is still limited. Combining a novel game-theoretic argument with a convincing empirical test, the present volume goes a long way in improving this state of the art. I th...

Table of Contents:

• 1 Introduction
• 2 Fundamental Uncertainty: The Demand for Information and Interest Group Activities
• 3 Process Uncertainty: Political Decision-making
• 4 Modeling Interest Group Communication Strategies
• 5 Data and Operationalization
• 6 Interest Group Communication Strategies
• 7 Conclusions.