Short Circuiting Policy: Interest Groups and the Battle Over Clean Energy and Climate Policy in the American States (Studies in Postwar American Political Development)

by Leah Cardamore Stokes

Third, I show the mechanisms through which interest groups try to drive policy changes after implementation. Policy changes are contingent on interest groups’ knowledge and networks, their direct lobbying of legislators and regulators, and their use of the parties, the public, and the courts.