Making Inference across Mobilisation and Influence Research: Comparing Top- Down and Bottom-Up Mapping of Interest Systems.

Scholars of mobilisation and policy influence employ two quite different approaches to mapping interest group systems. Those interested in research questions on mobilisation typically rely on a bottom-up mapping strategy in order to characterise the total size and composition of interest group commu...

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Publicado en:Political Studies Vol. 66; no. 1; pp. 43 - 63
Autores principales: Berkhout, Joost, Beyers, Jan, Braun, Caelesta, Hanegraaff, Marcel, Lowery, David
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Publicado: Sage Publications Inc. Feb2018
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          Berkhout, Joost
          Beyers, Jan
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          Hanegraaff, Marcel
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          Department of Political Science, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
          Department of Political Science, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
          Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs, Leiden University, The Hague, The Netherlands
          Department of Political Science, Penn State University, University Park, PA, USA
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        European Union countries
        Pressure groups
        Mass mobilization
        Inference (Logic)
        Social influence
        Lobbying
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          Environment, Conservation and Wildlife Organizations
          Human Rights Organizations
          Social advocacy organizations
          Other Social Advocacy Organizations
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      ab: Scholars of mobilisation and policy influence employ two quite different approaches to mapping interest group systems. Those interested in research questions on mobilisation typically rely on a bottom-up mapping strategy in order to characterise the total size and composition of interest group communities. Researchers with an interest in policy influence usually rely on a top-down strategy in which the mapping of politically active organisations depends on samples of specific policies. But some scholars also use top-down data gathered for other research questions on mobilisation (and vice versa). However, it is currently unclear how valid such large-N data for different types of research questions are. We illustrate our argument by addressing these questions using unique data sets drawn from the INTEREURO project on lobbying in the European Union and the European Union's Transparency Register. Our findings suggest that top-down and bottom-up mapping strategies lead to profoundly different maps of interest group communities.
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