Which came first, laws or lobbyists?: an empirical investigation of environmental regulation and interest group formation

Nonprofit organizations and interest groups play a substantial role in the United States; there were over 260,000 nonprofits and nearly 5,000 political action committees at work in 2010. Conventional wisdom suggests that many of these groups have formed with the goal of influencing the passage of ne...

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Main Author: Leonard, Bryan James
Language:en
Published: 2012
Online Access:http://etd.lib.montana.edu/etd/2012/leonard/LeonardB0512.pdf