TY - JOUR
T1 - State lobby registration data
T2 - The anomalous case of Florida (and Minnesota too!)
AU - Brasher, Holly
AU - Lowery, David
AU - Gray, Virginia
PY - 1999/5
Y1 - 1999/5
N2 - Florida's lobbying community was anomalously large in 1990, a problem that threatens to undermine more general interpretations of the density of state interest systems. We use time series and cross-sectional data to better understand just what happened in Florida. Two explanations are examined, one focusing on changes in lobbying regulations, and the other based on a population ecology interpretation of Florida's battle over the sales tax on services and what should replace it. The data provide circumstantial support for the latter account, which suggests that Florida is anomalous only in the extremity of the conditions governing the size of its interest community in the late 1980s, not the conditions themselves.
AB - Florida's lobbying community was anomalously large in 1990, a problem that threatens to undermine more general interpretations of the density of state interest systems. We use time series and cross-sectional data to better understand just what happened in Florida. Two explanations are examined, one focusing on changes in lobbying regulations, and the other based on a population ecology interpretation of Florida's battle over the sales tax on services and what should replace it. The data provide circumstantial support for the latter account, which suggests that Florida is anomalous only in the extremity of the conditions governing the size of its interest community in the late 1980s, not the conditions themselves.
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U2 - 10.2307/440313
DO - 10.2307/440313
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0038957797
SN - 0362-9805
VL - 24
SP - 303
EP - 314
JO - Legislative Studies Quarterly
JF - Legislative Studies Quarterly
IS - 2
ER -