Overview
- Develops a new model of lobbying which can be applied in a non-US context, to European democracies with parliamentary systems
- Provides a clean way to test specific mechanisms which help explain interest group communication strategies in parliamentary political systems
- Addresses the schism between game theoretic approaches to the study of informational lobbying and empirical studies on lobbying
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This book analyses interest group communication strategies in parliamentary political systems, and considers how political uncertainty, which emerges from the political process, shapes interest group communication strategies. It develops a formal model of lobbying in a bicameral legislature with strong party discipline, and discusses why interest groups choose public or private communication channels to influence political bargaining. The book tests its hypothesis in different policy contexts, including lobbying on major legislation in the field of labour and social policy.
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Keywords
- strategic decision-making
- communication strategy
- demand for information
- uncertainty
- lobbying
- lobbying tactics
- bargaining
- political process
- process uncertainty
- bargaining model
- nash equilibrium
- signalling model
- lobbying strategy
- decision-making
- ideal point estimation
- spatial distance
- centrality
- salience
- lobbying costs
- regression analysis
- democracy
Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Sebastian Koehler is a research fellow at the Department of Politics and Public Administration, University of Konstanz, Germany. His current research focuses on interest group access to political decision-makers and on the role which interest groups play in legislative bargaining.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Lobbying, Political Uncertainty and Policy Outcomes
Authors: Sebastian Koehler
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97055-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-97054-7Published: 10 September 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07293-3Published: 26 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-97055-4Published: 28 August 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 168
Number of Illustrations: 22 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour
Topics: Public Policy, Legislative and Executive Politics, Governance and Government, Democracy, Data-driven Science, Modeling and Theory Building, Statistics for Social Sciences, Humanities, Law