The American State Administrator's Project (ASAP) survey asks administrators about the influence of a variety of external political actors including "clientele groups" in their agencies., see page 395.
The variables included in the dataset are:
contracting scale from 0 : 6 where higher indicates more private contracting within the respondent's agency.
gov.incluence respondents' assessment of the governor's influence on contracting in their agency.
leg.influence respondents' assessment of the legislatures' influence on contracting in their agency, ranging from 0 : 21.
elect.board dichotomous variable coded 1 if appointed by a board, a commission or elected, and 0 otherwise.
years.tenure number of years that the respondent has worked at their current agency.
education ordinal variable for level of education possessed by the respondent.
partisan.ID a 5-point ordinal variable (1-5) for the respondent's partisanship (strong Democrat to strong Republican).
category categories of agency type.
med.time whether the respondent spent more or less than the sample median with representatives of interest groups.
medt.contr interaction variable between med.time and contracting.
gov.ideology state government ideology from Berry et al. (1998) from 0 to 100.
lobbyists total state lobbying registrants in 2000-01 from Gray and Lowery (1996, 2001).
nonprofits provides the total number of nonprofit groups in the respondents' state in the year 2008, divided by 10,000.
data(asap.data.list)