The Scale of Interest Organization in Democratic Politics: Data and Research Methods

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Estimating Group and Associational Populations: Endemic Problems but Encouraging Progress....Pages 1-22
Counting the Voices in the Heavenly Chorus: Pressure Participants in Washington Politics....Pages 23-43
Interest Organization Populations: The Demands of the Scale of Analysis and the Theoretical Purposes of Counting....Pages 44-66
The Changing Contours of British Representation: Pluralism in Practice....Pages 67-98
Numbers in a Niche: A Practitioner’s Guide to Mapping Gay and Lesbian Groups in the US....Pages 99-117
Multiple Arenas, Multiple Populations: Counting Organized Interests in Scottish Public Policy....Pages 118-140
Tracking Interest Group Populations in the US and the UK....Pages 141-160
The Usual Suspects: Interest Group Dynamics and Representation in Denmark....Pages 161-179
Mapping the WTO Interest Group System: Exploring Density, Diversity, and Stability Over Time....Pages 180-201
Above and Below the Radar: Mapping the Distribution of Civil Society Associations in England....Pages 202-222
Counting at the Local Level....Pages 223-244
Politics Is Not Basketball: Numbers Are Not Results....Pages 245-262
Back Matter....Pages 263-267