Outside Looking in: Lobbyists' Views on Civil Discourse in U.S. State Legislatures

The recent advent of gridlock and hyper-partisanship in the United States Congress has raised questions about whether similar divides are occurring in state governments, and if so, why? To find out, researchers--working in 2018 and 2019 under a National Institute for Civil Discourse (NICD) grant--conducted a survey of registered lobbyists and public agency legislative liaison officers in all fifty states. They received over 1,200 completed surveys...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0874224063
• ISBN13: 9780874224061
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: Washington State University Press
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"