Taking Stock of Money in Politics: The Powell Memo Fifty Years Later
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The Rise of Corporate Lobbyists in the United States
In 19 71 there were 175 firms and corporations with register lobbyists in d c. In 19 82, just 11 years later, there were two thousand 500. It had become basically universal for any corporation of any size to have washington lobbyists. And the number increased more than tenfold.
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