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Beth L. Leech
Researcher at Rutgers University
Publications - 28
Citations - 3431
Beth L. Leech is an academic researcher from Rutgers University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Government spending & Political communication. The author has an hindex of 14, co-authored 28 publications receiving 3219 citations.
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Asking questions: Techniques for semistructured interviews
TL;DR: In an interview, what you already know is as important as what you want to know.
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Basic Interests: The Importance of Groups in Politics and in Political Science
TL;DR: Baumgartner and Leech as mentioned in this paper reviewed hundreds of books and articles about interest groups from the 1940s to today; examine the methodological and conceptual problems that have beset the field; and suggest research strategies to return interest-group studies to a position of greater relevance.
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Lobbying and Policy Change: Who Wins, Who Loses, and Why
TL;DR: For example, the authors found that sixty percent of recent lobbying campaigns failed to change policy despite millions of dollars spent trying, and that resources explain less than five percent of the difference between successful and unsuccessful efforts.
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Interest Niches and Policy Bandwagons: Patterns of Interest Group Involvement in National Politics
TL;DR: The authors analyzed the distribution of lobbying on a random sample of 137 issues and found a tremendous skewness, with the top 5% of the issues accounting for more than 45% of all the lobbying, whereas the bottom 50% of issues accounted for less than 3% of total.
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Studying Organizational Advocacy and Influence: Reexamining Interest Group Research
TL;DR: The authors assess whether recent research has become more theoretically coherent, more attentive to context, and broader in both scope and topical focus, all of which are crucial to advancing the systematic study of interest groups and their policy-making activities.