eprintid: 21629 rev_number: 18 eprint_status: archive userid: 1482 importid: 105 dir: disk0/00/02/16/29 datestamp: 2016-06-21 08:25:15 lastmod: 2021-04-02 15:53:26 status_changed: 2018-05-30 06:42:36 type: monograph metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Klingler, Jonathan creators_idrefppn: 233086749 title: Political Capital in the 21st Century ispublished: pub subjects: subjects_ECO abstract: The Bush and Obama administrations have complemented their capacity to make public appeals by creating grassroots lobbying organizations with the explicit purpose of mobilizing supporters to pressure Congress to pass presidential policy priorities. This paper advances the study of organizations like Organizing for Action by considering their ability to make targeted appeals to the primary electorate of the president's party as well as orchestrate indirect mass persuasion campaigns. Furthermore, this paper defines the costs of lobbying in terms of those tactics' electoral costs. I present a model which predicts that targeted appeals will be more common under unified government and that mass persuasion attempts will be less common as the organizational capital of these organizations can be efficiently applied to electoral ends. The model also predicts that public appeals become less common as the time costs and relative electoral productivity of presidential time increase. I find empirical support for these hypotheses in data obtained from emails sent by Organizing for America/Organizing for Action to subscribers since its creation in early 2009 and in presidential primetime addresses made since 1957. date: 2014-12 date_type: published publisher: IAST working paper official_url: http://iast.fr/pub/29070 sub_title: An Electoral Theory of Going Public and Private faculty: tse divisions: tse language: en has_fulltext: TRUE view_date_year: 2014 full_text_status: public monograph_type: working_paper series: IAST working paper volume: 15-19 place_of_pub: Toulouse pages: 56 institution: Université Toulouse 1 Capitole department: Toulouse School of Economics book_title: IAST working paper oai_identifier: oai:tse-fr.eu:29070 harvester_local_overwrite: oai_set harvester_local_overwrite: department harvester_local_overwrite: faculty harvester_local_overwrite: sub_title harvester_local_overwrite: title harvester_local_overwrite: place_of_pub harvester_local_overwrite: pages harvester_local_overwrite: institution harvester_local_overwrite: id_number harvester_local_overwrite: creators_idrefppn oai_lastmod: 2018-05-29T18:00:03Z oai_set: tse oai_set: ut1c site: ut1 citation: Klingler, Jonathan (2014) Political Capital in the 21st Century: An Electoral Theory of Going Public and Private. IAST working paper, n. 15-19, Toulouse document_url: https://publications.ut-capitole.fr/id/eprint/21629/1/IAST_V1/wp/wp_iast_1519.pdf