Professional and Amateur Lobbyists In The Arkansas General Assembly
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In a democracy, the public interest requires open access and communication between citizens and legislators. Indeed, given that politics consists of authoritatively allocating values, no subset of which can make a universally accepted claim to be the truth, the political process which provides the widest practicable access and communication of different interests is most appropriate (Dahl, 1970; Lindsay, 1962; Pennock, 1979; Plamenatz, 1973; Thorson, 1962: 128-149).References
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