Washington Lobbyists Survey, 1956-1957 (ICPSR 7262)

Version Date: Feb 16, 1992

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Principal Investigator(s):
Lester Milbrath

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07262.v1

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Summary

This study interviewed a sample of registered lobbyists from Washington, DC, during the academic year 1956-1957. Questions investigated lobbyists' role in policy-making, their occupational history, interest in public affairs, reasons for becoming a lobbyist, and political activities. Other variables concern the respondents' relationships to the organizations they represented, where they tried to establish contact, techniques they used to do so, how their lobbying skills were acquired, and self-appraisal of their success. Of the 114 respondents included in the sample, 101 were actually interviewed. For the remaining 13, personal data as well as some information about their lobbying activities were obtained from public records and informal conversations. Demographic data include age, level of education, personal income, religious preference, party affiliation, marital status, and size of family.

Citation

Milbrath, Lester. Washington Lobbyists Survey, 1956-1957 . [distributor], 1992-02-16. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07262.v1

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Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

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Time Period(s)

1956 -- 1957

Date of Collection

1956 -- 1957
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Universe

Persons with Washington, DC, addresses who registered as lobbyists during the first two quarters of 1956.

Data Source

personal interviews and public records

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Original Release Date

1984-05-03

Version History

2018-02-15 The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented. The previous citation was:
  • Milbrath, Lester. WASHINGTON LOBBYISTS SURVEY, 1956-1957. Conducted by Lester Milbrath, State University of New York at Buffalo. ICPSR ed. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producer and distributor], 1972. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07262.v1

1984-05-03 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

  • Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.
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