Lobbying Tactics: Influence, Cost-Effectiveness, and the Judicial System

Abstract

Interest groups tend to use different methods to achieve their aims. Such are lobbying, media campaigns, publicity stunts, polls, policy briefings, and research. As far as legislative and judicial bodies are concerned, the interest groups mostly prefer direct lobbying for influence. In the direct lobbying process, the interest groups tend to introduce to the legislators' information that may, in one or another, supply favors, or maybe missed or even go to the extent of making political threats (Goldberg, 2018). Other members who may be involved may include government officials who formulate legislation. Unlike in other methods, lobbying tends to control the majority's power in that there is a majority in the governing positions. Lobbyists can pass whatever legal legislation they wish without looking at how the legislation affects other parties. Additionally, lobbying is usually started through time investment and not finances and therefore becomes cheaper and easier to use than other methods (Goldberg, 2018). The lobbying process is so simple that all required is access to a computer or a telephone. Interestingly, the old school method of a letter and the cost of a stamp. This makes lobbying a cost-effective way of reaching out to the interested parties (Jourdain, Hug and Varone, 2017). A good example is the judicial lobbying and the politics of judicial structure, whereby the circumstances surrounding the passage of the judiciary act of 1925 are discussed (Buchman, 2003). In the process herein, the Supreme Court could not have acted without considering the solution offered by Taft. It was these recommendations that congress eventually adopted as the judiciary act of 1925. As far as the matter at hand was concerned, this was the best approach ever since, in the end, the court was empowered to exercise greater control hence able to transform its...