Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : a contractual perspective on interest group politics
  • The political utility of advisory committees
  • The institutional underpinnings of political contracts
  • A theory of political contracts
  • Defusing contractual hazards
  • Interest group demand and the spread of advisory committees
  • Advisory committees as instruments of bureaucratic influence
  • The efficiency of contracts in governing political exchange
  • Conclusion.