To Lobby Alone or in a Flock
Foraging Behavior Among Organized Interests
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23339366 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Virginia Gray (0000-0002-3914-0145, University of Minnesota), David Lowery (0000-0002-6267-9712, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 5-34 |
| Publication date | 1998-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Politics Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0044-7803 • E-ISSN: 2376-3728 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1532673x9802600102 |
| OpenAlex | W2089331943 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 88 |
| References cited | 32 |
At present, we have little theory accounting for variations in alliance behavior among interest organizations. To address this problem, we extract three hypotheses about social hunting from foraging theory, as developed in behavioral ecology. The foraging theory hypotheses about resource competition, resource distribution, and individual sources of variation in alliance activity are tested with data on interest organizations in the American states. We report preliminary support for several foraging theory hypotheses and discuss how they might be more rigorously tested in future research.
Alliance · Biology · Competition (biology) · Distribution (mathematics) · Economics · Flock · Foraging · Management · Optimal foraging theory · Political science · Resource (disambiguation) · Resource allocation · Resource distribution · Variation (astronomy) · Computer Science · Ecology · Evolution and Genetic Dynamics · Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation · Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
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Buying Time
| Unique citing works | 88 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,14 |
| Citation span | 1998 - 2026 (29) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 87 |