Faculty & Research Published Research Research Advocacy Economics International and Global Affairs Social Entrepreneurship Facet Area of Focus - Research Craig Volden Christopher J. Ruhm Bala Mulloth Eileen Chou Benjamin Castleman Sarah Turner Edgar O. Olsen Sophie Trawalter Benjamin Converse Timothy Wilson Adam Leive James H. Wyckoff William Shobe Charles Holt Daniel W. Player Daphna Bassok Harry Harding Jay Shimshack Jeanine Braithwaite John Pepper Richard Bonnie David Leblang John Holbein Leora Friedberg Molly Lipscomb James Savage Sebastian Tello-Trillo Frederick P. Hitz Gabrielle Adams Gerald Warburg Isaac Mbiti Paul S. Martin Raymond C. Scheppach Ruth Gaare Bernheim Andrew S. Pennock Gerald Higginbotham Jazmin Brown-Iannuzzi Jennifer Lawless Michele Claibourn Noah Myung Philip Potter (-) Christine Mahoney Facet People - Research Facet UVA Partner - Research Published Research On the Advantages of a Well-Constructed Lobbying System: Towards a More Democratic, Modern Lobbying Process Authors: Christine Mahoney, Lee Drutman On the Advantages of a Well-Constructed Lobbying System: Towards a More Democratic, Modern Lobbying Process by Christine Mahoney Lee Drutman The American lobbying information processing system is woefully outdated. The mechanisms by which citizen, interest group, and business concerns are incorporated into the policymaking process have largely not been updated in over 200 years. Learn more Published Research International and Global Affairs Failure and Hope: Fighting for the Rights of the Forcibly Displaced Authors: Christine Mahoney In 2015, 60 million people were displaced by violent conflict globally - the highest since World War II. National and international policy prevents the displaced from working or moving freely outside the camps set up to ‘temporarily’ house them. Learn more Published Research Social Entrepreneurship Post-Map-Ask: Towards a More Democratic, Modern Lobbying Process Authors: Christine Mahoney, Lee Drutman Learn more Published Research Framing in context: how interest groups employ framing to lobby the European Commission Authors: Christine Mahoney, Heike Klüver, Marc Opper Framing plays an important role in public policy. Interest groups strategically highlight some aspects of a policy proposal while ignoring others in order to gain an advantage in the policy debate. Learn more Published Research Advocacy Measuring interest group framing strategies in public policy debates Authors: Christine Mahoney, Heike Klüver Framing plays an important role in lobbying, as interest groups strategically highlight some aspects of policy proposals while ignoring others to shape policy debates in their favour. However, due to methodological difficulties, we have remarkably little systematic data about the framing strategies of interest groups. Learn more Published Research Partners in Advocacy: Lobbyists and Government Officials in Washington Authors: Christine Mahoney, Frank Baumgartner One of the most important demonstrations of power in Washington is the ability to recruit sitting government officials to become active proponents of one’s position. Many have suggested money is the key: Campaign contributions buy friends, access, and perhaps even policy activism. Learn more Published Research Economics Following the Money: EU Funding of Civil Society Groups Authors: Christine Mahoney, Michael Beckstrand The literature on EU integration has long recognized that the European Commission has promoted a pan‐European civil society in order to increase the legitimacy of the supranational institutions. While we know the Commission fosters EU civil society by encouraging their formal and informal participation in the EU policymaking processes and by directly funding them (Mahoney 2004), we have, until now, known very little about just how much money the Commission has been granting EU civil society organizations and to which segments of European civil society. Learn more Published Research Measuring the Size and Scope of the EU Interest Group Population Authors: Christine Mahoney, Arndt Wonka, Frank R. Baumgartner, Joost Berkhout Learn more
Published Research On the Advantages of a Well-Constructed Lobbying System: Towards a More Democratic, Modern Lobbying Process Authors: Christine Mahoney, Lee Drutman On the Advantages of a Well-Constructed Lobbying System: Towards a More Democratic, Modern Lobbying Process by Christine Mahoney Lee Drutman The American lobbying information processing system is woefully outdated. The mechanisms by which citizen, interest group, and business concerns are incorporated into the policymaking process have largely not been updated in over 200 years. Learn more
Published Research International and Global Affairs Failure and Hope: Fighting for the Rights of the Forcibly Displaced Authors: Christine Mahoney In 2015, 60 million people were displaced by violent conflict globally - the highest since World War II. National and international policy prevents the displaced from working or moving freely outside the camps set up to ‘temporarily’ house them. Learn more
Published Research Social Entrepreneurship Post-Map-Ask: Towards a More Democratic, Modern Lobbying Process Authors: Christine Mahoney, Lee Drutman Learn more
Published Research Framing in context: how interest groups employ framing to lobby the European Commission Authors: Christine Mahoney, Heike Klüver, Marc Opper Framing plays an important role in public policy. Interest groups strategically highlight some aspects of a policy proposal while ignoring others in order to gain an advantage in the policy debate. Learn more
Published Research Advocacy Measuring interest group framing strategies in public policy debates Authors: Christine Mahoney, Heike Klüver Framing plays an important role in lobbying, as interest groups strategically highlight some aspects of policy proposals while ignoring others to shape policy debates in their favour. However, due to methodological difficulties, we have remarkably little systematic data about the framing strategies of interest groups. Learn more
Published Research Partners in Advocacy: Lobbyists and Government Officials in Washington Authors: Christine Mahoney, Frank Baumgartner One of the most important demonstrations of power in Washington is the ability to recruit sitting government officials to become active proponents of one’s position. Many have suggested money is the key: Campaign contributions buy friends, access, and perhaps even policy activism. Learn more
Published Research Economics Following the Money: EU Funding of Civil Society Groups Authors: Christine Mahoney, Michael Beckstrand The literature on EU integration has long recognized that the European Commission has promoted a pan‐European civil society in order to increase the legitimacy of the supranational institutions. While we know the Commission fosters EU civil society by encouraging their formal and informal participation in the EU policymaking processes and by directly funding them (Mahoney 2004), we have, until now, known very little about just how much money the Commission has been granting EU civil society organizations and to which segments of European civil society. Learn more
Published Research Measuring the Size and Scope of the EU Interest Group Population Authors: Christine Mahoney, Arndt Wonka, Frank R. Baumgartner, Joost Berkhout Learn more