With low voter turnout and part-time legislators in Texas, lobbyists play a significant role in policy making and policy outcomes (the "exercise of power").
The lobbying profession can be quite lucrative with the top lobbyists easily earning seven figure salaries. There are well over 1500 registered lobbyists in Austin, TX. That is about nine lobbyists for every single Texas legislator.
1) With that in mind, how well do these organized interests represent the wants and needs of the average Texan?
2) Or do a relatively small number of interest groups wield a disproportionate amout of inflence?
3) In other words, is Texas a democracy or a plutocracy?
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