A Quiet Revolution in State Lobbying
Government Growth and Interest Populations
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6340917 |
|---|---|
| Authors | James M Strickland (0000-0003-2650-5077, Arizona State University, Tempe, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 74 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1181-1196 |
| Publication date | 2021-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Political Research Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1065-9129 • E-ISSN: 1938-274X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1065912920975490 |
| OpenAlex | W3108266605 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 50 |
What explains contemporary numbers of interest groups in America? To answer this question and help address conflicting narratives in research, I examine the rise of interest groups in the states. Assembling an original dataset based on archival and secondary sources, I find that relatively few groups lobbied legislators prior to the 1960s or 1970s. During those decades, numbers of interest groups began to grow rapidly. I find that increases in lawmaking activities present inconsistent effects on the political mobilization of groups but increases in spending are strongly correlated with mobilization. In additional tests, I find that the effects of spending on group numbers vary by state and are not discernible in most states. In general, a historic transformation of state governments helps to account for the growth of state lobbying. Interest groups have remained active in state capitols ever since
Development economics · Economics · Interest group · Lawmaking · Legislature · Mobilization · Political economy · Political science · Politics · State (computer science · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Law · Policy Transfer and Learning · Political Influence and Corporate Strategies
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The Evolution of American Legislatures
The Population Ecology of Interest Representation
The Business of America is Lobbying
Distribution of the Estimators for Autoregressive Time Series With a Unit Root
The Theory of Economic Regulation
The Calculus of Consent
The Logic of Collective Action
Dynamic state interest group systems
Revisiting the ESA model
Interest groups and the size of government
State Legislatures
Generalist Interest Organizations and Interest System Density
An Economic Theory of Clubs
A Paradox of Political Reform
American State Legislatures. Report of the Committee on American Legislatures of the American Political Science Association
America's Crowded Statehouses
State Policy Innovativeness Revisited
The Marble Cake
Improving the Interpretation of Fixed Effects Regression Results
The Institutionalization of State Communities of Organized Interests
Continuing the Collective Action Dilemma
Drawing Lobbyists to Washington
Representational Concentration and Interest Community Size
A New Measure of Policy Spending Priorities in the American States
Legislative Professionalism and the Demand for Groups
State Lobby Registration Data
The Dynamics of State Policy Liberalism, 1936–2014
The Population Ecology of Gucci Gulch, or the Natural Regulation of Interest Group Numbers in the American States
The Declining Value of Revolving‐Door Lobbyists
Legislative Agendas and Interest Advocacy
Interest Group and Political Party Influence on Growth in State Spending and Debt
Explaining the Differences in State Lobby Regulation
Legislators and Interest Groups
| Unique citing works | 7 |
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| Citations per year | 1,75 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |