LEADER 04208nam 2200577Ia 450 001 9910438075203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9781430245612 010 $a1430245611 024 7 $a10.1007/978-1-4302-4561-2 035 $a(CKB)2560000000102841 035 $a(DE-He213)978-1-4302-4561-2 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000907771 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11570524 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000907771 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10898078 035 $a(PQKB)10337873 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1694153 035 $a(CaSebORM)9781430245605 035 $a(PPN)16913475X 035 $a(OCoLC)855856704 035 $a(OCoLC)ocn855856704 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000102841 100 $a20130426d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn|008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aLobbyists at work /$fBeth L. Leech 205 $a1st ed. 2013. 210 $aBerkeley, CA $cApress $cImprint: Apress$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (XIV, 272 p. 1 illus.) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 08$a9781430245605 311 08$a1430245603 327 $aHoward 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. 330 $a"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. 606 $aLobbying 606 $aLobbyists 615 0$aLobbying. 615 0$aLobbyists. 676 $a650 700 $aLeech$b Beth L$01065175 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910438075203321 996 $aLobbyists at Work$92543496 997 $aUNINA