The Business of America is Lobbying: How Corporations Became Politicized and Politics Became More Corporate by Lee Drutman

Author:Lee Drutman [Drutman, Lee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Non-Fiction, Politics, Political Science, History, Business, United States
ISBN: 9780190215538
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2015-03-19T10:59:00+00:00

Figure 7.1 Type of lobbying presence, by company lobbying size, 2007.

Source: LDA reports.

We can better see how the balance of in-house vs. outside lobbying changes as companies get more involved by looking closely at Figure 7.2. Each dot represents a company. The darkness corresponds to the density of observations. The lines are fitted smoothing lines. What we see is that while there is a fair amount of variation in how companies balance their lobbying, the balance shifts towards more in-house lobbying as companies spend more. The companies spending $1 million and up spend (on average) half of their lobbying in-house, and half through contract lobbying firms. On average, the companies that do the most lobbying tend to do most of their spending through their own lobbyists. This makes some sense, since companies that spend the most are most committed to politics, and can benefit from economies of scale in having a large government relations staff. However, even the largest companies have reasons to go beyond their in-house capacity. We will spend some time discussing why this is the case later in this chapter, and what this tells us about modern corporate lobbying.

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