Lobbyists and legislators
Subtitle: a comparative state study, 1966
By: principal investigators, L. Harmon Zeigler and Michael Baer
Series: ICPSR -- 7248; ICPSR (Series) -- 7248
Publisher: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor
Published: 1960
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Mich
Language: und
Format: [computer file] :
Subjects: Legislators; Attitudes; Lobbyists; Lobbying
Description: Data for the study were collected in February and March 1966, from legislators and registered lobbyists in the states of Massachusetts, North Carolina, Oregon, and Utah. The sample of 582 legislators explores the respondents' early interest in politics, their background of previously held government positions, and legislative leadership positions which they currently hold. This sample concentrates on the respondents' opinion of lobbyists and contact with them, their competence, means of communication with them, tasks which lobbyists have, and the extent to which lobbyists use pressure and persuasive activities. Legislators' aggregate data district descriptions are also included. The 644 respondents in the lobbyist sample were asked about their backgrounds in politics and in the organizations which they represent. The study ascertains the lobbyists' feelings about their profession and its role in the legislative process as well as specifics about the organization(s) by whom they are employed. In addition to details of their work as lobbyists--contacts with legislatures, techniques used to persuade, and time spent with opposition lobbyists--the study probes the respondents' opinions about the most powerful occupation groups and the reasons for their influential positions.
Notes: ICPSR data class: Class IV.

Data collected: February-March 1966.

United States.

The data contain blanks.

582 legislators (250 variables, 10 cards per respondents; 644 lobbyists (175 variables, 8 cards per respondent.)

Zeigler, L. Harmon, and Michael A. Baer. Lobbying: Interaction and Influence in American Legislatures. Belmont, California: Wadswoth Publishing, 1969.

Zeigler, L. Harmon. ''Interest Groups in the States'' in Herbert Jacob and Kenneth Vines (eds.), Politics in the American States, 2nd Ed. Boston: Little, Brown, 1971.