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Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Puzzle of the Governors' Lobbyists; 1. Governors' Lobbyists as Political Safeguards of Federalism; 2. The Political Development of State Lobbying Offices; 3. The Political Development of the National Governors Association; 4. Modern State Offices at Work; 5. Modern Governors Organizations as Organized Interests; 6. Politics, Culture, and Variation in Maintenance of State Offices; 7. The Value of the Governors' Lobbyists; Notes; References; Index.

In the last fifteen years, there has been a significant accumulation of research on lobbyists and lobbying offices that represent state and local governments either in Washington or in state capitals. This essay seeks to review the scope of these and earlier efforts and assess where our knowledge is deepest and where significant unanswered questions remain. In general, there is substantially more research on lobbyists who represent governors than those representing other types of public officials. Further, research has paid more attention to lobbying in the federal arena than to lobbying in state capitals. Recent research on local government lobbying, however, has led to significant gains in our ability to measure the financial benefits of intergovernmental lobbying.

AbstractThis article serves three purposes. First, we present a new source of campaign finance data for the 50 states. This includes annual data on candidate expenditures in gubernatorial races from 1977 to 2001, as well as triennial and biennial data on campaign finance laws affecting gubernatorial races during this period. Second, we review the various sources of campaign finance data for the 50 states. Third, we examine the challenges of collecting and compiling data across the 50 states, since these data can vary so much in availability and measurement. We hope to provide some general lessons to researchers collecting or working with all types of cross-state data.