ABSTRACT
It makes sense to assume that interest groups lobby only government decision-makers. After all, government decision-makers are the people who make government decisions. Who else would interest groups lobby? The answer, it turns out, is you and me. Numerous studies of lobbying show that interest groups often lobby ordinary citizens who have little or no power directly to make government decisions. This sort of lobbying, lobbying that is aimed at ordinary people rather than government decision-makers, is called “indirect lobbying,” and is the subject of this chapter.
