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"Lobbyists at Work is a must-read for someone drawn to the intense enterprise of presidency. Leech's probing questions mirror her years of analysis monitoring the genuine influence of cash and effect on policy."  —Thomas Hale Boggs, Jr. (Chairman, Patton Boggs LLP) 

Received knowledge has it that lobbyists run the yankee govt on behalf of moneyed pursuits. yet what makes lobbyists run, and the way do they result in legislators and bureaucrats to do their bidding? those are questions for which even the most harsh critics lack gratifying answers. Lobbyists at Work explores what lobbyists relatively do and why. It is going behind the curtain and brings again in-depth interviews with fifteen political advocates selected to symbolize the breadth and variety of the lobbying profession.

The interviewees profiled during this publication variety from the pinnacle lobbyists-for-hire on the strongest ok highway agencies to seasoned bono lobbyists for the disenfranchised and powerless. The roster spans every kind of lobbyists operating for all sorts of consumers and looking to impact all degrees and branches of presidency. The variations contain business-lobbying-government, government-lobbying-government, government-to-business revolving door, regulatory lobbying, nation and native lobbying, citizen-advocacy lobbying,single-issue lobbying, and multiple-issue lobbying. In colourful and infrequently hilarious aspect, the interviewees take the reader via their arsenals of conventional and next-generation lobbying strategies, together with face-to-face persuasion of elected officers and their staffs, academic campaigns and coalition-building, ghost-drafting complicated laws and law for presidency committees and firms, contributions, and social media campaigns. 

In Lobbyists at Work, the generally self-effacing matters open up approximately themselves and their career: why they selected to turn into lobbyists, what motivates them to maintain lobbying, how they domesticate their lobbying impact, how they comply with alterations within the ideas affecting their lobbying equipment, and what they really do at paintings every day (and night). As an expert on lobbying revered in Washington for her impartiality, Professor Beth Leech elicits frank disclosures, occupation tips, and riveting tales in regards to the sturdy, the undesirable, and the ambivalent on each side of the symbiotic dating among govt officers and lobbyists.