Gerber The Populist Paradox

Interest Group Influence and the Promise of Direct Legislation
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ISBN: 978-1-4008-2330-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
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E-Book, Englisch, 176 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Gerber, Elisabeth R.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

List of Tables xi

Acknowledgments xiii

1. What Is the Populist Paradox? 3

A Theory of Interest Group Influence 6

Motivation: The Study of Interest Group Influence 10

Justification: Why Study Direct Legislation? 15

Plan of the Book 19

2. Interest Group Choice 21

Forms of Influence 21

Interest Group Choice 27

Achieving Influence 30

Summary and Conclusions 36

3. Direct Legislation Hurdles 37

Achieving Direct Modifying Influence 38

Achieving Direct Preserving Influence

Achieving Indirect Modifying Influence 50

Achieving Indirect Preserving Influence: Opposing an Initiative to Signal the Legislature 52

Behavioral Hurdles 52

Summary and Conclusions 58

4. Group Characteristics and Resources 59

Monetary and Personnel Resources 59

Using Resources to Overcome Hurdles 60

Membership Characteristics 65

Classifying Groups and Their Resources 69

Hypotheses about Motivations and Forms of Influence 71

Summary 75

5. Motivations and Strategies 76

Methodology 76

What Do Groups Say They Do? 80

What Do Groups Actually Do? 93

Summary and Conclusions 100

6.Direct Policy Consequences 101

Direct Policy Consequences 101

Summary and Conclusions 119

7. Indirect Policy Consequences 121

State Policy Differences 122

Summary and Conclusions 136

8.The Populist Paradox: Reality Or Illusion? 137

Economic Group Limitations 137

Citizen Group Dominance 140

Implications for the Study of Direct Legislation 140

Implications for the Study Of Interest Group Influence 141

Positive versus Normative Implications 142

A Final Assessment 146

Appendixes 147

A. Direct Legislation Institutions 147

B. Survey Of Organizations 152

References 159

Index 165

Über Autor(innen)

Elisabeth R. Gerber, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego, studies the consequences of U.S. election laws on interest representation. She is currently working on a major study of primary election laws in the American states.