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Who Works with Whom? Interest Group Alliances and Opposition

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2014

Robert H. Salisbury ,
John P. Heinz ,
Edward O. Laumann  and
Robert L. Nelson
Robert H. Salisbury
Affiliation:
Washington University
John P. Heinz
Affiliation:
Northwestern University
Edward O. Laumann
Affiliation:
University of Chicago
Robert L. Nelson
Affiliation:
Northwestern University
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Abstract

Interest-group interactions may be examined in ways comparable to the analysis of conflict and coalition in other areas of political science. We seek to measure and compare the structure of interest-group participation and conflict in four domains of U.S. domestic policy: agriculture, energy, health, and labor. Data are drawn from a survey of 806 representatives of organizations with interests in federal policy, supplemented by interviews with 301 government officials in the same four domains. Several types of data are adduced regarding the intensity and partisanship of group conflict in each domain and the range and variety of group participation. Coalitional patterns are described and the mutual positioning of different kinds of organization—peak-association groups versus more specialized trade, professional, or commodity groups, for example—are examined.

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American Political Science Review , Volume 81 , Issue 4 , December 1987 , pp. 1217 - 1234
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Copyright © American Political Science Association 1987

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