Interesting. It makes sense to me that it’s more assisting natural allies than explicit bribery.
But I still sense something is going on here. It’s an intuitive suspicion and I don’t understand it well enough to make a strong argument for it, but I’ll try to communicate what I’m thinking.
I see that special interests that have lobbying power get a lot more done than the interests that don’t have as much lobbying power. And probably more so is that I hear other people saying this so much. Almost as if it’s common knowledge. So this makes me think that lobbying is in some way having a huge impact.
This excerpt seems to be arguing that they have the impact by assisting natural allies rather than explicit bribery, but it doesn’t seem to claim that lobbyists aren’t having a big impact. Perhaps there’s a lot of implicit influence going on? For example, politicians won’t choose a position unless they know that they’ll get the support of lobbyists. In this way, even though it isn’t explicit bribing, lobbyists could still be having a huge impact.
Interesting. It makes sense to me that it’s more assisting natural allies than explicit bribery.
But I still sense something is going on here. It’s an intuitive suspicion and I don’t understand it well enough to make a strong argument for it, but I’ll try to communicate what I’m thinking.
I see that special interests that have lobbying power get a lot more done than the interests that don’t have as much lobbying power. And probably more so is that I hear other people saying this so much. Almost as if it’s common knowledge. So this makes me think that lobbying is in some way having a huge impact.
This excerpt seems to be arguing that they have the impact by assisting natural allies rather than explicit bribery, but it doesn’t seem to claim that lobbyists aren’t having a big impact. Perhaps there’s a lot of implicit influence going on? For example, politicians won’t choose a position unless they know that they’ll get the support of lobbyists. In this way, even though it isn’t explicit bribing, lobbyists could still be having a huge impact.