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Engaging with public bureaucracies is important for interest groups to achieve policy impact.

The concept of executive subsidy may be used as an integrative concept for studying bureaucracy-interest group interactions. An executive subsidy conceptualizes bureaucracy-interest group interactions as, on the one hand, interest groups strategically supporting (i.e., subsidizing) policy work by civil servants by offering (a combination of) policy-services and, on the other hand, bureaucrats strategically selecting groups for offering policy-relevant policy services that can leverage their policy work and advisory roles.