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The Curious Case Of Will Brooke, Adam Muro

Capstones

William Wade Brooke, an Alabama businessman with ties to state and national Republican Party politics and scandal, was for over one year a registered foreign agent working for the office of Saad Hariri, Prime Minister of Lebanon. He was the only registered lobbyist for Hariri while he was active, and stranger yet he stated on his Foreign Agent Registration Act forms that he was working for free. An investigation into his background and ties to Lebanon revealed that he lobbied for free in recognition of favors that Hariri did, and continues to do, for a christian missionary group Brooke is …

Lobbying And The Petition Clause, Maggie Blackhawk

All Faculty Scholarship

Contrary to popular opinion, the Supreme Court has not yet resolved whether lobbying is constitutionally protected. Belying this fact, courts, Congress, and scholars mistakenly assume that lobbying is protected under the Petition Clause. Because scholars have shared the mistaken assumption that the Petition Clause protects the practice of “lobbying”, no research to date has looked closely at the Petition Clause doctrine and the history of petitioning in relation to lobbying. In a recent opinion addressing petitioning in another context, the Supreme Court unearthed the long history behind the right to petition and argued for the importance of this history for …

Advancing The Empirical Research On Lobbying, John M. De Figueiredo, Brian Kelleher Richter

Faculty Scholarship

This essay identifies the empirical facts about lobbying which are generally agreed upon in the literature. It then discusses challenges to empirical research in lobbying and provides examples of empirical methods that can be employed to overcome these challenges—with an emphasis on statistical measurement, identification, and casual inference. The essay then discusses the advantages, disadvantages, and effective use of the main types of data available for research in lobbying. It closes by discussing a number of open questions for researchers in the field and avenues for future work to advance the empirical research in lobbying.

Charities In Politics: A Reappraisal, Brian Galle

William & Mary Law Review

Federal law significantly limits the political activities of charities, but no one really knows why. In the wake of Citizens United, the absence of any strong normative grounding for the limits may leave the rules vulnerable to constitutional challenge. This Article steps into that breach, offering a set of policy reasons to separate politics from charity. I also sketch ways in which my more precise exposition of the rationale for the limits helps guide interpretation of the complex legal rules implementing them.

Any defense of the political limits begins with significant challenges because of a long tradition of scholarly criticism …

The Maine Women's Advocate (2010 - Winter), Maine Women's Lobby Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

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The Maine Women's Advocate (2009 - Winter), Maine Women's Lobby Staff

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The Maine Women's Advocate (2009 - Summer), Maine Women's Lobby Staff

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The Maine Women's Advocate (2008 - Summer), Maine Women's Lobby Staff

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The Maine Women's Advocate (2007 - Fall), Maine Women's Lobby Staff

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The Maine Women's Advocate (2007 - Winter), Maine Women's Lobby Staff

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The Maine Women's Advocate (2007 - Summer), Maine Women's Lobby Staff

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Privatization And The Law And Economics Of Political Advocacy, Alexander Volokh

ExpressO

A common argument against privatization is that private providers, motivated by self-interest, will advocate changes in substantive policy. In this Article, I evaluate this argument, using, as a case study, the argument against prison privatization based on the possibility that the private prison industry will distort the criminal law by advocating incarceration.

This “political influence” argument applies at least as well to public provision: Government agencies, too, lobby for changes in substantive law. In the prison industry, for instance, it is unclear whether private firms advocate incarceration to any significant extent, but public guard unions are known to do so …

The Maine Women's Advocate (2006 - Fall), Maine Women's Lobby Staff

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The Maine Women's Advocate (2006 - Summer), Maine Women's Lobby Staff

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The Maine Women's Advocate (2006 - Winter), Maine Women's Lobby Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

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The Timing, Intensity, And Composition Of Interest Group Lobbying: An Analysis Of Structural Policy Windows In The States, John M. De Figueiredo

Faculty Scholarship

This is the first paper to statistically examine the timing of interest group lobbying. It introduces a theoretical framework based on recurring “structural policy windows” and argues that these types of windows should have a large effect on the intensity and timing of interest group activity. Using a new database of all lobbying expenditures in the U.S. states ranging up to 25 years, the paper shows interest group lobbying increases substantially during one of these structural windows in particular--the budgeting process. Spikes in lobbying during budgeting are driven primarily by business groups. Moreover, even groups relatively unaffected by budgets lobby …

Lobbying And Information In Politics, John M. De Figueiredo

Faculty Scholarship

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The Lobbyist No. 31 (Winter 2001), Maine Women's Lobby Staff

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The Lobbyist No. 28 (Winter 2000), Maine Women's Lobby Staff

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The Lobbyist No. 29 (Spring 2000), Maine Women's Lobby Staff

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The Lobbyist No. 25 (May 1999), Maine Women's Lobby Staff

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The Lobbyist No. 24 (February 1999), Maine Women's Lobby Staff

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The Lobbyist No. 27 (Fall 1999), Maine Women's Lobby Staff

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The Lobbyist No. 23 (October 1998), Maine Women's Lobby Staff

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The Lobbist No. 22 (August 1998), Maine Women's Lobby Staff

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The Lobbyist No. 21 (April 1998), Maine Women's Lobby Staff

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The Lobbyist No. 20 (December 1997), Maine Women's Lobby Staff

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The Lobbyist No. 19 (August 1997), Maine Women's Lobby Staff

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The Lobbyist No. 18 (February 1997), Maine Women's Lobby Staff

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Maine Women's Lobby News Letter (1996 - November) No. 17, Maine Women's Lobby Staff

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