Date of Award
1997
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts
Department
Political Science
Abstract
This thesis compares and contrasts the tactics and techniques used by Virginia public interest lobbyists in the passage of the 1990 VIRGINIA INDOOR CLEAN AIR ACT with Alan Rosenthal's analysis of state legislative lobbying found in his book, THE THIRD HOUSE. Primary sources include personal interviews and legislative documents, while newspaper articles provide the secondary source of information. Lobbyists used the indirect and direct lobbying techniques, suggested in Rosenthal's framework, to persuade others to their point of view. Supporters of the CLEAN AIR BILL had to deviate, in part, from some of Rosenthal's direct lobbying strategies due to Virginia's history of economic dependence on tobacco. Nevertheless, the Rosenthal framework held true for a majority of the techniques used by the public interest groups.
Recommended Citation
Thornton, Louise Ryland, "The 1990 Virginia Indoor Clean Air Act : a case study in public interest lobbying" (1997). Master's Theses. 1315.
https://scholarship.richmond.edu/masters-theses/1315