Interest Groups and Economic Growth Rates
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6384875 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ian Maitland (University of Minnesota, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1985 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 44-58 |
| Publication date | 1985-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-3816 • E-ISSN: 1468-2508 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2131065 |
| OpenAlex | W2037803667 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
| References cited | 16 |
Olson (1982) has argued that the greater the density of interest organizations in a society, the slower its rate of economic growth. Interest groups have no inhibitions about lobbying for policies that depress growth because they obtain the benefits of such policies in full while paying a fraction of their cost. An exception to this rule is the "encompassing" interest organization: because of its size, its members are bound to "internalize" much of the external costs of such policies. Consequently Olson predicts that such an organization will tend to have less parochial--and so less growth-defeating--legislative objectives. This prediction is tested for both business and labor using political action committee contribution data
Action (physics · Economics · Interest group · Interest rate · Legislature · Monetary economics · Political science · Politics · Public economics · Special Interest Group · Economic Theory and Institutions · Law · Political Influence and Corporate Strategies
Interest groups
Explaining the Rain
Union Political Activities
Dynamic state interest group systems
A Renaissance in State Interest Group Studies
Managers United for Corporate Rivalry
Money and rhetoric
Strategic diversity in labor PAC contribution patterns
Distributional coalitions, state strength, and economic growth
Interest Group Influence in the U. S. Congress
Interest Group Politics and Economic Growth in the U.S. States
Wielding the Stick Instead of the Carrot
Don’t Bite The Pac That Feeds You
Buying Time
Class Compromises in Industrial Democracies
Political organizations
The governmental process
Patterns of corporatist policy-making
Labor in American politics.
The Logic of Collective Action
American Business, Public Policy, Case-Studies, and Political Theory
Still the Century of Corporatism
Access, Record, and Competition as Influences on Interest Group Contributions to Congressional Campaigns
Toward a Broader View of Interest Groups
"The Science of "Muddling Through
Systems Politics and Systems Budgeting
What Makes PACs Tick? An Analysis of the Allocation Patterns of Economic Interest Groups
The Paradox of Vote Trading
| Unique citing works | 15 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,38 |
| Citation span | 1987 - 2026 (40) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 15 |