TY - JOUR
T1 - Environmental limits on the diversity of state interest organization systems
T2 - A population ecology interpretation
AU - Gray, Virginia
AU - Lowery, David
N1 - Copyright:
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PY - 1996
Y1 - 1996
N2 - Our stock of theory about variation in interest organization diversity is quite limited. At best, we view diversity as an outcome of mobilization processes. We critique this view and develop an alternative conceptualization of diversity based on population ecology models of interest group density. Based on tests of these models (Lowery and Gray 1995), we simulate how state interest organization diversity responds to changes in the environmental forces governing the growth of interest organization populations. We then consider the implications of our reconceptualization of representational diversity for the further study of interest organization systems.
AB - Our stock of theory about variation in interest organization diversity is quite limited. At best, we view diversity as an outcome of mobilization processes. We critique this view and develop an alternative conceptualization of diversity based on population ecology models of interest group density. Based on tests of these models (Lowery and Gray 1995), we simulate how state interest organization diversity responds to changes in the environmental forces governing the growth of interest organization populations. We then consider the implications of our reconceptualization of representational diversity for the further study of interest organization systems.
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U2 - 10.1177/106591299604900106
DO - 10.1177/106591299604900106
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0030541076
SN - 1065-9129
VL - 49
SP - 103
EP - 118
JO - Political Research Quarterly
JF - Political Research Quarterly
IS - 1
ER -