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Richard L. Hall

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Professor, Ford School of Public Policy
Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
4130 Weill Hall
735 South State St.
(734) 763-4390
rlhall@umich.edu

Research Interests:

Professor Hall is currently writing a book on interest group influence in law making and rule making at the national level. The study develops a theory of lobbying which holds that under most conditions lobbying is a form of legislative subsidy. Lobbyists do not persuade; they assist like-minded legislators in promoting interests common to member and the group. The theory also provides an account of interest group campaign contributions in which very little money facilitates lobbying under common conditions. The empirical work focuses primarily in the areas of health and environmental policy. Professor Hall is also engaged in a study of interest group issue advertising and a study of the Medicare prescription drug bill of 2003.

Selected Publications

  • Participation in Congress Yale University Press, 1996.
  • "Buying Time: Moneyed Interests and the Mobilization of Bias in Congressional Committees," American Political Science Review, 1990, with Frank Wayman.
  • "The Committee Assignment Process and the Conditional Nature of Committee Bias," American Political Science Review, 1990, with Bernard Grofman.
  • "Avarice and Ambition: Representatives' Decisions to Run for or Retire from the U.S. House," with Robert Van Houweling, American Political Science Review, 1994.
  • "Empiricism and Progress in Positive Theories of Legislative Institutions," in Kenneth Shepsle and Barry Weingast, eds., Positive Theories of Congressional Institutions, University of Michigan Press, 1995.
  • "Lobbying as Legislative Subsidy," working paper, 1998.
  • "Interest Group Subsidies to Legislative Overseers," working paper, 1999, with Kris Miler.

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