BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:talks.ox.ac.uk
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Bureaucratic Revolving Doors and Interest Group Participation in P
 olicymaking - Hye Young You (New York University)
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20201023T123000
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20201023T140000
UID:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/5b22c808-068e-4e35-93d6-802fe4e0848a/
DESCRIPTION:There is growing concern about the movement of individuals fro
 m private sectors to bureaucracies\, yet little attention is paid to how t
 his affects interest groups’ activities. Interest groups with connection
 s to bureaucrats may exert less effort to provide information to policymak
 ers (the “substitution effect”) or exert more effort (the “complemen
 t effect”). We address this question by constructing a novel dataset on 
 career trajectories of bureaucrats in the Office of the US Trade Represent
 ative (USTR) and firms that served on USTR advisory committees during the 
 period 1997-2017. Empirical results support the substitution effect: firms
  with connections to USTR bureaucrats decrease their lobbying spending and
  participation on advisory committees. We present suggestive evidence that
  the substitution effect occurs when connected bureaucrats’ ideologies a
 re closer to the median ideal point of the agency\, which makes the connec
 ted bureaucrats pivotal players. Our findings suggest that an apparent dec
 rease in interest groups’ political activities might not imply that thei
 r influence on policymaking diminished.\nSpeakers:\nHye Young You (New Yor
 k University)
LOCATION:Colloquium to be hosted on Zoom
TZID:Europe/London
URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/5b22c808-068e-4e35-93d6-802fe4e0848a/
BEGIN:VALARM
ACTION:display
DESCRIPTION:Talk:Bureaucratic Revolving Doors and Interest Group Participa
 tion in Policymaking - Hye Young You (New York University)
TRIGGER:-PT1H
END:VALARM
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR