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Whose Ear to Bend? Information Sources and Venue Choice in Policy-Making

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  • Boehmke, Frederick J.
  • Gailmard, Sean
  • Patty, John Wiggs

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Important conceptualizations of both interest groups and bureaucratic agencies suggest that these institutions provide legislatures with greater information for use in policy-making. Yet little is known about how these information sources interact in the policy process as a whole. In this paper we consider this issue analytically, and develop a model of policy-making in which multiple sources of information – from the bureaucracy, an interest group, or a legislature's own in-house development – can be brought to bear on policy. Lobbyists begin this process by selecting a venue – Congress or a standing bureaucracy – in which to press for a policy change. The main findings of the paper are that self-selection of lobbyists into different policy-making venues can be informative per se, and that this self-selection can make legislatures prefer delegation to ideologically distinct bureaucratic agents over ideologically close ones. Changes within the FederalTrade Commission during the 1970s are reinterpreted in the context of our model.

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  • Boehmke, Frederick J. & Gailmard, Sean & Patty, John Wiggs, 2006. "Whose Ear to Bend? Information Sources and Venue Choice in Policy-Making," Quarterly Journal of Political Science, now publishers, vol. 1(2), pages 139-169, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:now:jlqjps:100.00000003
    DOI: 10.1561/100.00000003
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    1. Sean Gailmard, 2020. "Game theory and the study of American political development," Public Choice, Springer, vol. 185(3), pages 335-357, December.
    2. Charles R. Shipan & Craig Volden, 2008. "The Mechanisms of Policy Diffusion," American Journal of Political Science, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 52(4), pages 840-857, October.
    3. Turner, Ian R, 2021. "Political Agency, Oversight, and Bias: The Instrumental Value of Politicized Policymaking," SocArXiv ebp5m, Center for Open Science.
    4. Christian Salas, 2019. "Persuading policy-makers," Journal of Theoretical Politics, , vol. 31(4), pages 507-542, October.
    5. Montagnes, B. Pablo & Wolton, Stephane, 2015. "Rule Versus Discretion: Regulatory Uncertainty, Firm Investment, and the Ally Principle," MPRA Paper 65047, University Library of Munich, Germany.

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