We update the literature on corporate attempts to influence political actors, and thereby
shape their governmental outcomes. Doing so allows us to recognize where the field has …

Do lobbyists provide issue-specific information to members of Congress? Or do they provide
special interests access to politicians? We present evidence to assess the role of issue …

When first writing this book, my main aim was to provide a textbook that drew on the UK
experience of public relations, having been frustrated during many years of teaching the …

This article proposes that political marketing and lobbying have much to learn from each
other. Both are essentially persuasive forms of communication; both have some basis in …

We analyze the strategic considerations inherent in legislative subsidies and develop an
informational lobbying model with costly policy reforms. In contrast to other models of …

Americans rail against so-called special interests but at the same time many members of
society are themselves represented in one form or another by organized groups trying to …

This new (third) edition of Rethinking Public Relations continues the argument of previous
editions that public relations is weak propaganda. However, while earlier editions focused …

Activist nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) increasingly oppose firms' practices. We
suggest this might be related to the vulnerability of public regulation to corporate influence …

Most recent work on the politics of interest representation assumes that lobbyists represent
their clients' interests with fidelity. As a check on the validity of this assumption, we examine …

This study aims to provide insight into public affairs professionals' role conceptions and
perceived influence on political decision making. We conducted a quantitative online survey …