@article{dbc9a0d349324398aa2e216243ee7ab2,
title = "Understanding the relationship between health pacs and health lobbying in the american states",
abstract = "We examine how health PAC activity in the states is connected to lobbying. Is the political money that health interest organizations bring to the policy process a powerful, independent means of influence or is it better understood narrowly as a tactic used to support lobbying We examine the relationship between campaign contributions and lobby activity and the limited work that has been conducted on them and raise a number of questions about the process by which they are connected. We utilize 1998 data on state lobbying and PAC activity, allowing us to answer causal research questions generated from existing studies at the national level. We conclude that PAC activity is best viewed as an adjunct of lobbying rather than an independent form of political activity.",
author = "David Lowery and Virginia Gray and Jennifer Benz and Mary Deason and Justin Kirkland and Jennifer Sykes",
note = "Funding Information: We thank Rachel Weiss at the National Institute on Money in State Politics for her assistance in procuring the data for us and helping us understand it. This research was supported by a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Award in Health Policy Research (\#047727). 1. Given variations in state laws, the term PAC represents {\textquoteleft}{\textquoteleft}nonindividual, nonparty{\textquoteright}{\textquoteright} con-tributors to state political campaigns. We discuss this issue further when we present our data. 2. Especially important in this regard is the routine use of Mancur Olson{\textquoteright}s (1965) theory of collective action in this literature to explain the density of PAC populations, an approach that is now viewed as inappropriate for a number of reasons (Lowery et al. 2008).",
year = "2009",
month = jul,
doi = "10.1093/publius/pjn027",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "39",
pages = "70--94",
journal = "Publius: The Journal of Federalism",
issn = "0048-5950",
publisher = "Oxford University Press",
number = "1",
}