bq. Ultimately, any attempt to simplify lobbying as either fundamentally influential or not influential misses a very basic point: lobbying is a process, a conversation, a multi-dimensional chess game that sometimes never ends.
That’s political scientist, and former Monkey Cage guest-blogger Lee Drutman, over at the PPI blog, Progressive Fix. He is responding to this NY Times blog post about the book Lobbying and Policy Change, by Frank Baumgartner, Jeffrey Berry, Marie Hojnacki, David Kimball and Beth Leech.
See the whole post.