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Measuring State Legislative Lobbying Regulation, 1990-2003

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2021

Adam J. Newmark
Adam J. Newmark*
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Appalachian State University
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Abstract

Since 1990, the American states have adopted a variety of reforms to regulate lobbying in an attempt to address a host of ethical issues. Such regulation can have important impacts on a variety of aspects of the legislative process because it typically impacts the relationships between legislators and lobbyists. How does such lobbying regulation vary across the states and over time? I have developed a measure of state lobbying regulation from 1990-2003. This measure validly captures the laws that limit relationships between lobbyists and legislators and, as such, can be used to help assess a variety of hypotheses about the legislative process.

Type
The Practical Researcher
Information
State Politics & Policy Quarterly , Volume 5 , Issue 2 , Summer 2005 , pp. 182 - 191
Copyright
Copyright © 2005 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

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