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The Business of America is Lobbying: How Corporations Became Politicized and Politics Became More Corporate (Studies in Postwar American Political Development)

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Corporate lobbyists are all over the place in Washington. Of the 100 organizations that spend the most on lobbying, 95 represent business. The largest companies now have upwards of 100 lobbyists representing them. How did American businesses change into so invested in politics? And what does all their money buy? Drawing on extensive data and original interviews with corporate lobbyists, The Business of The united states is Lobbying provides an interesting and detailed picture of what corporations do in Washington, why they do it, and why it matters. Since the 1970s, a wave of new government regulations and declining economic conditions has mobilized business leaders, and companies have developed new political capacities. Managers soon started to see public policy as a chance, not just a threat. . Ever since, corporate lobbying has change into more pervasive, more proactive, and more particularistic. Lee Drutman argues that lobbyists drove this development by helping managers see the importance of politics and how proactive and aggressive engagement could help companies’ bottom lines. Politics is messy, unpredictable, and more competitive than ever, but the growth of lobbying has driven several important changes that have increased the power of business in American politics. And now, the costs of effective lobbying have risen to a level that only larger businesses can normally have the funds for. Energetic and engaging, rigorous and nuanced, this will change how we consider lobbying-and how we might reform it.

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