Influencing Political Decision‐Making
Interest Groups and Elections in Independent Ireland
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6074463 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gary Murphy (0000-0002-6331-255X, Dublin City University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 563-580 |
| Publication date | 2010-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Irish Political Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0790-7184 • E-ISSN: 1743-9078 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/07907184.2010.518697 |
| OpenAlex | W1967057991 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 25 |
A key question in interest group studies is why some interest groups put forward candidates for election rather than simply trying to influence the political process through normal channels. Theoretically interest groups should not seek public office or compete in elections but should rather pursue their goals through frequent interactions with politicians and bureaucrats. The aim of this article is to examine why such interest groups go beyond the informality stage of simply representing their members’ interests by interacting with such politicians and civil servants and instead seek election to public office. As political parties in Ireland now compete on an increasingly narrow issue base, this article argues that interest groups involve themselves in elections precisely because they are better able to influence political decision‐making from inside Dáil Éireann and that election to the Dáil is a sign of their arrival as a serious group with a serious cause. This article categorises these groups into those that run candidates for elected office at both local and national level and those that campaign in specific referendums. It also assesses how such groups in effect move their lobbying activities into parliament as distinct from lobbying outside it as is in the theoretical norm in interest group politics
Civil servants · General election · Interest group · Local election · Parliament · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Public interest · Public office · Public relations · Sociology · Special Interest Group · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Political Influence and Corporate Strategies · Public Administration
Defamation in the Dáil
Symposium introduction
Interest group access to policymaking in Ireland
Balancing gains and hazards
Campaigns without civil society? The involvement of organized interests in electoral politics
Without enemies, without friends. Morality policies, the Roman Catholic Church, and Ireland’s ‘secular’ party system
To inform, strategise, collaborate, or compete
Minor Parties in Irish Political Life
The Rise and Fall of Minor Parties in Ireland
Minor Parties
Breaking the Mould or Fiddling at the Edges? Ireland’s Minor Parties in Comparative and Systemic Perspective
European Modernity and Beyond
Why Parties?
Democracy and Interest Groups
The Origin and Development of Political Parties
The Election and the Party System
Ireland, 1912–1985
Politics in the Republic of Ireland
Politics in the Republic of Ireland
The puzzle of non-party actors in party democracy
Eoin O'Duffy - A self-made hero
Researching Interest Group Politics in Europe and Elsewhere
Party Membership in Twenty European Democracies, 1980-2000
Social Change and Moral Politics
Reflections on Political Parties and Political Development, Four Decades Later
The Irish Labour Party
Managing Change
The Lisbon Treaty Referendum 2008
The 2009 Local Elections in the Republic of Ireland
The Rise and Fall of Minor Parties in Ireland
The 1997 general election in the republic of Ireland
On the Road to Extinction
| Unique citing works | 11 |
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| Citations per year | 0,69 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2023 (14) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |