Farmed Out
Agricultural Lobbying in a Polarized Congress
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 1 March 2024
- ISBN 9780197683798
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages192 pages
- Size 156x235x16 mm
- Weight 408 g
- Language English 467
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Short description:
In Farmed Out, Clare R. Brock uses U.S. agricultural policy as a vehicle to explain how the rapidly polarizing political environment has altered the role of interest groups in Washington. Drawing on over two decades of lobbying behavior data in the agricultural sector, Brock argues that polarization has given interest groups greater influence over policy content, particularly among their ideological and partisan allies. Brock makes an important and original contribution to our understanding of how interest groups now operate within a context of heightened partisanship, lengthened time horizons, and declining institutional capacity.
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Interest groups have a tremendous impact on public policy. Congressional capacity for research and fact-finding is at a historical low, and interest groups have rushed in to fill the gap. They effectively act as adjunct staffers by providing members of Congress with the necessary information to write legislation. Of course, none of this is done for free. Lobbying groups influence the content of policy in ways that further their own agendas. How have interest groups modified their strategies in response to the newly polarized and information-sparse political climate? And what are the implications for interest groups' influence over the content of policy?
In Farmed Out, Clare R. Brock uses U.S. agricultural policy as a vehicle to explain how the rapidly polarizing political environment has altered the role of interest groups in Washington. Drawing on over two decades of lobbying behavior data in the agricultural sector, Brock argues that polarization has given interest groups greater influence over policy content, particularly among their ideological and partisan allies. Brock's findings suggest that lobbyists increasingly work on an extended time horizon, often with cross-cutting coalitions, in order to pursue policy outcomes that once might have been easy asks. As a result, lobbying influence appears to increasingly be skewed toward those interest groups who have the capacity to maintain a long-term presence on the Hill--in other words, affluent and relatively wealthy groups whose concerns might not reflect the preferences of most Americans. Farmed Out makes an important and original contribution to our understanding of how interest groups now operate within a context of heightened polarization, lengthened time horizons, and declining institutional capacity.
Brock leverages insights from agricultural and food policy domains to paint a compelling picture of members of Congress as isolated, reelection-obsessed free agents dependent on lobbyists for information and coalition-building. Members also lack institutional support, suggesting that our image of Congress as the world's most well-resourced and independent legislative body needs reconsideration. In Brock's assessment, the core functions of Congress are shaped by groups and companies with the deepest pockets and whose priorities may not align with the majority of Americans as voters or consumers. Farmed Out makes important contributions to our understanding of how interest groups operate within a context of heightened partisanship and poor institutional capacity. Who governs? One wonders.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1. Too Many Cooks in the Kitchen: Bitter Partisanship and Uneasy Alliances
Chapter 2. A Growing Policy Area: The Creation of Agriculture as a Staple of American Politics
Chapter 3. Work Hard for the Money: Polarization and Evolving Lobbying Strategies
Chapter 4. The (Not Quite) Business as Usual of Washington: Corporate Lobbying Strategies
Chapter 5. Keeping Up with the Corporations: Interest Group Adaptation to Party Polarization in Congress
Chapter 6. He Said, She Said: The Power of Interest Group Negotiations
Chapter 7: Money, Money, Money: The Link between Influence and Wealth
Chapter 8. Influencing a Polarized Congress: Herculean or Sisyphean?
Appendix A: Notes on the Quantitative Methods
Appendix B: Notes on Qualitative Methods
Notes
References
Index
