TY - JOUR
T1 - Policy positions, power and interest group-party lobby routines
AU - Haugsgjerd Allern, Elin
AU - Klüver, Heike
AU - Marshall, David
AU - Otjes, Simon
AU - Rasmussen, Anne
AU - Witko, Christopher
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the Research Council of Norway (Norges Forskningsråd) and the University of Oslo (Universitetet i Oslo) (FRIPRO, YRT) [grant number 231755/F10]. We would like to thank PAIRDEM’s data manager, Vibeke Wøien Hansen, for all her efforts and Eirik Hildal, plus, above all, Lise Rødland and Maiken Røed, for excellent research assistance. We are also thankful to the rest of the PAIRDEM core research group, Tim Bale, Thomas Poguntke and Paul Webb, and the locally recruited research assistants, who helped when preparing and fielding the PAIRDEM interest group survey. We are grateful for feedback from participants at the ECPR General Conference in 2018, the 2018 APSA Annual Meeting, the 2019 PAIRDEM project conference and EPSA’s annual conference in 2020. We would in particular like to thank Mihail Chiru, Kaare Strøm and the anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Prior literature points to the importance of party power and ideology for interest group-party contacts in the legislative arena. But interest groups do not often have ideologies–they are typically active in a small number of policy domains and there may be different parties that share more similar preferences across different policy areas. Therefore, we examine whether and how party power and proximity in policy preferences predict the existence of party-interest group ‘lobby routines’ in specific policy domains, using a novel survey of representative samples of interest groups in seven long-established democracies. We find that groups often form routines with different parties in different policy areas and that preference proximity on relevant policy dimensions is positively associated with having such area-specific lobby routines. However, the results also suggest that powerful parties are more likely allies and that the effect of policy proximity on routines is positively conditioned by power.
AB - Prior literature points to the importance of party power and ideology for interest group-party contacts in the legislative arena. But interest groups do not often have ideologies–they are typically active in a small number of policy domains and there may be different parties that share more similar preferences across different policy areas. Therefore, we examine whether and how party power and proximity in policy preferences predict the existence of party-interest group ‘lobby routines’ in specific policy domains, using a novel survey of representative samples of interest groups in seven long-established democracies. We find that groups often form routines with different parties in different policy areas and that preference proximity on relevant policy dimensions is positively associated with having such area-specific lobby routines. However, the results also suggest that powerful parties are more likely allies and that the effect of policy proximity on routines is positively conditioned by power.
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U2 - 10.1080/13501763.2021.1912148
DO - 10.1080/13501763.2021.1912148
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85105241274
VL - 29
SP - 1029
EP - 1048
JO - Journal of European Public Policy
JF - Journal of European Public Policy
SN - 1350-1763
IS - 7
ER -