Information and influence : organizational influence on public policy through advisory committees
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- How do private organizations influence public policy, particularly through non-economic means? Scholarship in political science and corporate political activity has primarily examined the influence of private organizations via lobbying, campaign donations and the "revolving door." These studies are inherently limited by a perspective that views legislation as the outcome of the market for dollars and votes and by focusing on legislation almost exclusively. My dissertation addresses these limitations through a mixed-methods study combining interviews and a multi-year analysis of how organizations participate in federal advisory committees as a means of influencing regulation (rather than legislation). Advisory committees are a common tool federal agencies use to solicit feedback and gather expert advice from non-governmental sources. I find that agencies utilize these committees as part of an extensive information gathering network. As such, these committees, and those represented on them, have the ability to affect agency decision making by influencing the information that an agency receives. This effect I demonstrate through a statistical analysis of the relationship between representation on committees and the receipt of policy-related grants from related agencies. These findings demonstrate the importance of studying regulation, not legislation, as the "hand of government" that most frequently interacts with organizations and the ability of private organizations to influence regulation. In addition, my dissertation adds nuance to existing literature by showing a new pathway for corporate political activity, information sharing, that has long been the focus of organization theory in other contexts.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2016 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Haymore, Thomas C |
|---|---|
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Management Science and Engineering. |
| Primary advisor | Barley, Stephen R |
| Primary advisor | Hinds, Pamela |
| Thesis advisor | Barley, Stephen R |
| Thesis advisor | Hinds, Pamela |
| Thesis advisor | Byers, Thomas (Thomas H.) |
| Thesis advisor | Parigi, Paolo, 1973- |
| Advisor | Parigi, Paolo, 1973- |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Thomas C. Haymore. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Management Science and Engineering. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2016. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2016 by Thomas Chandler Haymore
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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