Competitive lobbying in the influence production process and the use of spatial econometrics in lobbying research

Egerod, Benjamin C. K.; Junk, Wiebke Marie

doi:10.1007/s11127-022-00962-w

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“…Of course, competition is only one of several possible dynamics that might unfold between interest organizations and their staff members. Clearly, not all competition is zero-sum, as portrayed by Becker (1983) for modeling purposes (see also : Holyoke, 2011, Egerod & Junk, 2022. The precise constellation of (member and policy) preferences varies between issues.…”

Section: Competition For Policy Influencementioning

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Advocacy intelligence and competition: Assessing lobbyists' sharing of tactical knowledge in focus group interviews

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Advocacy intelligence is a critical organizational resource fostering long‐term survival and policy success. Policy‐active interest groups such as non‐profits, business associations and labor unions, seek to maintain their competitive advantage among peers and therefore have incentives to remain secretive about the details of their lobbying strategies and membership mobilization. We empirically evaluate this argument based on knowledge sharing interactions in 12 focus group interviews with approximately 50 representatives of interest groups in the Netherlands, Ireland and Denmark. Our research design manipulates the composition of the focus groups to vary the level of competition for political influence and membership among the participants. Strikingly, we find no evidence that either type of competition hampers knowledge sharing. Instead, our novel data point to three fruitful alternative explanations: the importance of socialization, mentorship and personalities of interest group leaders.

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Section: Competition For Policy Influencementioning

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Does a firm’s lobbying activity respond to its peers’ lobbying activity?

Pan

2023

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To Toe the Party Line? The Impact of Firm and CEO Partisanship on Corporate Mass-Media Normative Legitimacy

Hadani

2024

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Corporate political activity (CPA) research has traditionally focused on instrumental and strategic value, explicitly ignoring how external stakeholders, specifically the public, view the legitimacy implications of CPA, in particular with regard to partisan forms of CPA. Yet, recent research has begun introducing normative considerations into CPA, highlighting the impact of public evaluations on CPA, and partisan CPA, in particular. Focusing on normative affective legitimacy, as proxied by the tone of mass-media reporting rhetoric, this study explores the effect of firm and CEO partisan political contributions on corporate affective legitimacy. Utilizing three types of dynamic panel data analyses on S&P 500 firms over 20 years, the study provides consistent evidence that both firm-level and CEO-level partisan political action committee contributions are negatively associated with affective-based corporate legitimacy. Post hoc analyses reveal that in response to affective-legitimacy evaluations, firms reduce firm-level partisan political contributions and lobbying expenditures, but not other forms of CPA or partisan CPA. The study also finds that state-level public political polarization moderates the association between CEO partisan contributions and firms’ affective-legitimacy evaluations. This study is the first to systematically document the negative normative impact of CPA and partisan CPA. It strongly informs CPA theory and has practical implications for executives’ use of partisan CPA.

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Competitive lobbying in the influence production process and the use of spatial econometrics in lobbying research

Cited by 4 publications

References 46 publications

Advocacy intelligence and competition: Assessing lobbyists' sharing of tactical knowledge in focus group interviews

Advocacy intelligence and competition: Assessing lobbyists' sharing of tactical knowledge in focus group interviews

Does a firm’s lobbying activity respond to its peers’ lobbying activity?

To Toe the Party Line? The Impact of Firm and CEO Partisanship on Corporate Mass-Media Normative Legitimacy

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