The interest group theory of financial development in China: Openness and the role of interest groups

World Economy ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 982-999
Author(s):  
Chengsi Zhang ◽  
Yueteng Zhu
Keyword(s):  
Group Theory ◽  
Interest Groups ◽  
Financial Development ◽  
Interest Group

14. Interest Groups and the European Union

2019 ◽  
pp. 201-218
Author(s):  
Rainer Eising
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Interest Groups ◽  
Interest Group ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Group System ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Group Structures ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Eu

This chapter examines the role of interest groups in European Union (EU) politics. It also considers the way in which the EU institutions influence interest group structures and activities. The chapter begins with an overview of the relationship between the EU institutions and interest groups and examines the steps taken thus far to regulate that relationship. It then looks at the evolution and the structure of the interest group system, focusing in particular on two salient aspects: the difference between national and EU organizations; and the difference between specific and diffuse interests.

The role of super interest groups in public policy diffusion

2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 513-541
Author(s):  
Stephanie L. DeMora ◽  
Loren Collingwood ◽  
Adriana Ninci
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Interest Groups ◽  
Interest Group ◽  
Policy Diffusion ◽  
State Legislatures ◽  
Policy Networks ◽  
Advocacy Coalition Framework ◽  
Field Of Study ◽  
Advocacy Coalition

In recent years scholarship has drawn attention to the role of large multi-issue interest groups in policy networks and in public policy diffusion. This paper develops this field of study by demonstrating empirically the leverage of the ‘sustained organisational influence’ theory of policy diffusion. Specifically, it focuses on the role of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) in diffusing the Stand Your Ground policy across US state legislatures. By comparing ALEC’s template policy to bills introduced and legislation subsequently enacted within state legislatures, we demonstrate that ALEC has positioned itself as a ‘super interest group’, exerting sustained organisational influence across an expanding number of states. In doing so, this paper moves theory beyond the typical advocacy coalition framework that implicitly assumes policymaking occurs discretely among specialists on an issue-by-issue basis. It also highlights the democratic implications of the role of super interest groups in shaping policy behind the scenes.

scholarly journals Who gets to judge?

2020 ◽  
Vol 44 ◽  
pp. 7-25
Author(s):  
Jessica Nuske
Keyword(s):  
Group Theory ◽  
Interest Groups ◽  
Interest Group ◽  
Constructivist Approach

Debates on the issue of representation have since long started to transcend elections and topographically bound constituencies by addressing self-appointed representatives in form of interest groups. However, with no elections and a mere claim to represent a constituency, who gets to judge and consequently authorises the claims and demands accountability? Deriving from Saward’s constructivist approach on the representative claim, this article introduces a revisited approach to interest groups by adjusting constructivism with respect to crucial insights derived from interest group theory, provided by Montanaro and Strolovitch. Building on this revisited approach, this article re-evaluates questions on who gets to authorise and account representatives and consequently presents a holistic constructivist framework not only on the nature of claim-based representation, but also on its potential and pitfalls. Additionally, it provides incentives for research on the disjunction between constituency and interest groups provoked by a (structural) occurrence of non-authorisation and non-accountability.

Soviet Interest Groups and the Policy Process: The Repeal of Production Education

1969 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip D. Stewart
Keyword(s):  
Group Theory ◽  
Interest Groups ◽  
Policy Process ◽  
Political Conflict ◽  
Democratic Politics

The role of interest groups in the policy process has long engaged the attention of students of democratic politics. Only recently, however, have Soviet interest groups been studied systematically. This lag can be explained by two facts: the employment of the totalitarian model, emphasizing hierarchical controls and ignoring or denying significant political conflict; and the considerable difficulties of applying group theory to nondemocratic societies.

Soviet Politics and the Group Approach: A Conceptual Note

Slavic Review ◽  
1972 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 136-141 ◽  
Author(s):  
David E. Langsam ◽  
David W. Paul
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Group Theory ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Interest Groups ◽  
Interest Group ◽  
The United States ◽  
Soviet System ◽  
Group Approach ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
The Social

One of the “Great Debates” among Soviet specialists in the social sciences today concerns the applicability of interest group theory to the study of Soviet politics. Though a large number of specialists have accepted the notion that interest groups do indeed play a certain kind of role in the Soviet system, there are still those who hold to the opinion, once taken for granted but in recent years challenged, that interest group theory simply does not apply to the Soviet Union. The strength of the latter argument lies in the fact that in the USSR interest groups do not operate publicly and openly, as they do in the United States; therefore, interest group theory as developed to fit the American context cannot describe or explain the dynamic processes of policymaking in Russia.

The interest group theory of financial development: Evidence from regulation

2013 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 895-906 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Hauner ◽  
Alessandro Prati ◽  
Cagatay Bircan
Keyword(s):  
Group Theory ◽  
Financial Development ◽  
Interest Group

scholarly journals The politics of financial development: The role of interest groups and government capabilities

2012 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 626-643 ◽  
Author(s):  
O. Becerra ◽  
E. Cavallo ◽  
C. Scartascini
Keyword(s):  
Interest Groups ◽  
Financial Development

Interest Groups

2020 ◽  
pp. 432-449
Author(s):  
Anne Skorkjær Binderkrantz
Keyword(s):  
Interest Groups ◽  
Interest Group ◽  
News Media ◽  
Early Mobilization ◽  
Public Affairs ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
Group System ◽  
Political Role

Interest groups are key actors in the Danish political system. This chapter discusses the origin and development of the interest group system and the political role of groups. The focus is on interest groups both as membership-based associations and as political actors. The chapter discusses how the early mobilization of farmers, workers, and businesses interacted with emerging corporatist structures in shaping the contours of the interest group system. Later developments led to a shift towards more groups representing citizen interests rather than economic groups. The political role of groups traditionally centred on access to public decision-making through, for example, representation in boards and committees. Today, interest groups operate across multiple arenas, and Parliament and the news media have become central. New actors such as think tanks and public affairs agencies have gained importance, but traditional interest groups remain the most prominent policy advocates in Denmark.

Organizing Interests and Coalitions in the Politics of Market Reform in Latin America

2004 ◽  
Vol 56 (3) ◽  
pp. 456-479 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ben Ross Schneider
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Interest Groups ◽  
Interest Group ◽  
Preliminary Analysis ◽  
Empirical Investigation ◽  
Market Reform ◽  
Business Interests ◽  
Reform Politics ◽  
New Research

A recent wave of deep empirical research provides a solid basis for a comparative reassessment of the role of coalitions in the politics of market reform in Latin America in the 1990s. This research confirms earlier findings that interest groups and distributional coalitions were not major protagonists in either antireform or proreform coalitions. The new research goes further empirically into analyzing the origins of interests, especially business interests, and finds them to be much more ambiguous and dynamic than assumed in earlier studies. Consequendy, other factors, especially organizations and the evolving macroeconomic context, were stronger influences on preferences regarding reform. Given the relative weakness of interest group coalitions, the article provides a typology and preliminary analysis of other kinds of coalitions—electoral, legislative, and policy—that have become more central to reform politics. These other types of coalitions still require further theoretical elaboration and empirical investigation in order to determine how they can best be deployed to illuminate reform politics.

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