Madison on the Beneficial Effects of Interest Groups
What Was Left Unsaid in "Federalist" 10
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6356655 |
|---|---|
| Authors | James Yoho (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 587-605 |
| Publication date | 1995-06-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Polity (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0032-3497 • E-ISSN: 1744-1684 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3234961 |
| OpenAlex | W2326742925 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
An exclusive focus on Federalist 10 has encouraged the standard view that James Madison believed interest groups are inherently factious. His political career, which included considerable involvement with interest groups, indicates that he believed interest groups could have a beneficial effect on policy when they were nonfactious-when they supported policies that would promote the general good. Yet because he believed that factious groups-groups promoting selfish interests-would remain strong, he proposed protecting the republic through the structural remedy of pitting faction against faction in a large polity rather than relying on the strength of nonfactious groups
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| Citations per year | 0.21 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1998 - 2021 (24) |
| Highly cited | No |