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The Presidency and Organized Interests: White House Patterns of Interest Group Liaison

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  • Peterson, Mark A.

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Studies of the relationship between the presidency and organized interests generally focus on presidential assistants and their communications with the interest group community. I take a different perspective. Based on presidential strategic interests and choices illuminated for several administrations through interviews with White House officials, four kinds of interest group liaison are identified: governing party, consensus building, outreach, and legitimization. These approaches are then empirically evaluated for the Reagan White House using interviews with Reagan's staff and the responses of several hundred interest group leaders to 1980 and 1985 surveys of national voluntary associations. Like the Carter administration after its first year, the Reagan White House initially emphasized “liaison as governing party” built on exclusive and programmatic ties to groups. A less activist legislative agenda and new circumstances later shifted the emphasis of the Reagan and Bush administrations to other forms of interest group liaison.

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  • Peterson, Mark A., 1992. "The Presidency and Organized Interests: White House Patterns of Interest Group Liaison," American Political Science Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 86(3), pages 612-625, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:apsrev:v:86:y:1992:i:03:p:612-625_09
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    1. Daniel P. Carpenter & Kevin M. Esterling & David M. J. Lazer, 1998. "The Strength of Weak Ties in Lobbying Networks," Journal of Theoretical Politics, , vol. 10(4), pages 417-444, October.
    2. Klingler, Jonathan, 2014. "Political Capital in the 21st Century: An Electoral Theory of Going Public and Private," IAST Working Papers 15-19, Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse (IAST).

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