1Assistant Professor, Department of International Relations, University of Rajshahi, Dhaka Highway, Rajshahi, 6205, Bangladesh
2Masters Scholar, Department of Public Administration, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, 430000, China, bikramju1020@gmail.com
3Master of Public Administration (MPA), Department of Public Administration, Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka-1342, Bangladesh, bjdatta@yahoo.com
4Assistant Professor, Department of Law, University of Rajshahi, Dhaka Highway, Rajshahi, 6205, Bangladesh, sadiqul_sagar@yahoo.com
*Corresponding author) email id: skc_ruir@ru.ac.bd,
Online published on 23 November, 2018.
The study aims at unfolding interest group's influence on individual members of U.S. Congress in time of public policy decision making. It has followed Gauthier's philosophy of practical reasoning, which has evolved through the development of the concept of substantial rationality and has found that most of the literature has failed to justify how far the interest groups have succeeded to influence individual members of U.S. Congress to formulate decisions in line with the will of the majority citizens. Rather, the existing literatures have mostly focused on how interest groups dominate each member of U.S. Congress to ascertain their group interests.
Interest groups, Substantial rationality, Practical reasoning, U.S. Congress, Public policy
