1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996336743703316

Titolo

International journal of cognitive informatics & natural intelligence

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hershey, Pa., : Idea Group Pub

Hershey, Pa., : IGI Global

ISSN

1557-3966

Disciplina

004

Soggetti

Information theory

Autonomic computing

Natural computation

Neural networks (Computer science)

Periodicals.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

"An official publication of the Information Resources Management Association."



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910438075203321

Autore

Leech Beth L

Titolo

Lobbyists at work / / Beth L. Leech

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, CA, : Apress, : Imprint : Apress, 2013

ISBN

9781430245612

1430245611

Edizione

[1st ed. 2013.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XIV, 272 p. 1 illus.)

Disciplina

650

Soggetti

Lobbying

Lobbyists

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Howard Marlowe -- Robert Walker -- Nick Allard -- Julie Stewart -- Laura Murphy -- Lyle Dennis -- Dale Florio -- Christina Mulvihill -- Leslie Harris -- Mark Burnham -- Danielle Her Many Horses -- Timothy Richardson -- Jonathan Schleifer -- Angela Guo -- Craig Holman.

Sommario/riassunto

"Lobbyists at Work is a must-read for anyone interested in the serious business of government. Leech's probing questions reflect her years of research tracking the real impact of money and influence on policy."  —Thomas Hale Boggs, Jr. (Chairman, Patton Boggs LLP)  Received wisdom has it that lobbyists run the American government on behalf of moneyed interests. But what makes lobbyists run, and how do they induce legislators and bureaucrats to do their bidding? These are questions for which even the harshest critics lack satisfying answers. Lobbyists at Work explores what lobbyists really do and why. It goes behind the scenes and brings back in-depth interviews with fifteen political advocates chosen to represent the breadth and diversity of the lobbying profession. The interviewees profiled in this book range from the top lobbyists-for-hire at the most powerful K Street firms to pro bono lobbyists for the disenfranchised and powerless. The roster spans all types of lobbyists working for all types of clients and seeking to influence all levels and branches of government. The permutations include business-lobbying-government, government-lobbying-government, government-to-business revolving door, regulatory



lobbying, state and local lobbying, citizen-advocacy lobbying,single-issue lobbying, and multiple-issue lobbying. In colorful and sometimes hilarious detail, the interviewees take the reader through their arsenals of traditional and next-generation lobbying techniques, including face-to-face persuasion of elected officials and their staffs, educational campaigns and coalition-building, ghost-drafting complex legislation and regulation for government committees and agencies, contributions, and social media campaigns.  In Lobbyists at Work, the normally self-effacing subjects open up about themselves and their profession: why they chose to become lobbyists, what motivates them to keep lobbying, how they cultivate their lobbying influence, how they adjust to changes in the rules affecting their lobbying methods, and what they actually do at work each day (and night). As an authority on lobbying respected in Washington for her impartiality, Professor Beth Leech elicits frank disclosures, career tips, and riveting stories about the good, the bad, and the ambivalent on both sides of the symbiotic relationship between government officials and lobbyists.