Most interest-group lobbying represents business, not the poor or workers.

Evidence

As to empirical evidence concerning interest groups, it is well established that organized groups regularly lobby and fraternize with public officials, move through revolving doors between public and private employment, provide self-serving information to officials, draft legislation, and spend a great deal of money on election campaigns. Moreover, in harmony with theories of biased pluralism, the evidence clearly indicates that most interest groups and lobbyists represent business firms or professionals. Relatively few represent the poor or even the economic interests of ordinary workers, particularly now that the U.S. labor movement has become so weak. — Martin Gilens and Benjamin I. Page, Testing Theories of American Politics, 40

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Parliament favors business because business is its only organized pressure group. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 2185; Business lobbying dominance stems from group count, not per-group clout — Martin Gilens and Benjamin I. Page, Testing Theories of American Politics:…, 124; Interest groups do not amplify majority policy preferences; business groups dominate despite opposing them. — Martin Gilens and Benjamin I. Page, Testing Theories of American Politics:…, 125 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Interest groups do not amplify majority policy preferences; business groups dominate despite opposing them. #corroborates (0.90) — Martin Gilens and Benjamin I. Page, Testing Theories of American Politics, 125
• Business lobbying dominance stems from group count, not per-group clout #expands (0.85) — Martin Gilens and Benjamin I. Page, Testing Theories of American Politics, 124
• Corporate lobbying operates through information management, not just vote swaying #expands (0.78) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1539