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Assessing Inter-Institutional Attention to and Influence on Government Regulations

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  • WEBB YACKEE, SUSAN

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The US federal bureaucracy implements the nation's laws while juggling its own preferences and the preferences of numerous stakeholders. This article begins to unpack the conditions under which the bureaucracy responds to its stakeholders during rule making, and it is argued that bureaucratic responsiveness is conditioned on the level of attention provided by Congress and the President. This argument is tested with a dataset of forty rules and 1,444 interest group comments. Interest group influence is found to be constrained by congressional – but not presidential – attention to rule making. The results also shed light on Wilson's interest group theory of politics and suggest that the fragmentation of group preferences is less important than the central message sent by groups.

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  • Webb Yackee, Susan, 2006. "Assessing Inter-Institutional Attention to and Influence on Government Regulations," British Journal of Political Science, Cambridge University Press, vol. 36(4), pages 723-744, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:bjposi:v:36:y:2006:i:04:p:723-744_00
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    1. Adriana Bunea, 2015. "Sharing ties and preferences: Stakeholders’ position alignments in the European Commission’s open consultations," European Union Politics, , vol. 16(2), pages 281-299, June.

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