This Article Full Text (PDF) References Alert me when this article is cited Alert me if a correction is posted Services Email this article to a friend Similar articles in this journal Alert me to new issues of the journal Add to Saved Citations Download to citation manager Request Permissions Request Reprints Add to My Marked Citations Citing Articles Citing Articles via HighWire Citing Articles via Google Scholar Google Scholar Articles by GRAY, V. Articles by LOWERY, D. Search for Related Content Social Bookmarking                   What's this?

The Expression of Density Dependence in State Communities of Organized Interests

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

DAVID LOWERY

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

We examine a key issue arising from the density dependence hypothesis of the population ecology approach to studying interest communities: the expression of density dependence through variations in the rates of entrance and/or exit from lobbying communities. How such expression occurs will influence (a) the independence of mobilization phenomena from the nature of the lobbying community into which an organization is being mobilized and (b) the prospects of demographic turnover within interest communities. Ordinary least squares (OLS) regression analyses of new and more complete data using a more fully specified model generates sharply different results from those reported by Gray and Lowery, suggesting that much greater attention must be accorded to community context in analyses of the mobilization.

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    What's this?

This article has been cited by other articles:

				V. Gray, D. Lowery, M. Fellowes, and J. L. Anderson Legislative Agendas and Interest Advocacy: Understanding the Demand Side of Lobbying American Politics Research, May 1, 2005; 33(3): 404 - 434. [Abstract] [PDF]

				D. Lowery, V. Gray, and M. Fellowes Sisyphus Meets the Borg: Economic Scale and Inequalities in Interest Representation Journal of Theoretical Politics, January 1, 2005; 17(1): 41 - 74. [Abstract] [PDF]

				D. Lowery and V. Gray A Neopluralist Perspective on Research on Organized Interests Political Research Quarterly, March 1, 2004; 57(1): 164 - 175. [Abstract] [PDF]

				D. Lowery and V. Gray Bias in the Heavenly Chorus: Interests in Society and before Government Journal of Theoretical Politics, January 1, 2004; 16(1): 5 - 29. [Abstract] [PDF]