Reconsidering The Counter-Mobilization Hypothesis: Health Policy Lobbying In The American States |
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Authors: | Email author" target="_blank">David?LoweryEmail author Virginia?Gray Jennifer?Wolak Erik?Godwin Whitt?Kilburn |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Public Administration, University of Leiden, RB2300 Leiden, The Netherlands;(2) Department of Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 27599 Chapel Hill, NC, USA;(3) Department fo Political Science, University of Colorado, 80309 Boulder, CO, USA |
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Abstract: | Despite its widespread use since the concept was introduced by David Truman (1951. The Governmental Process. New York: Alfred A. Knopf), counter-mobilization by organized interests has remained theoretically ambiguous and rarely studied empirically. We more fully develop the concept of short-term counter-mobilization, distinguish it from long-term counter-mobilization, specify the conditions under which we might observe short-term counter-mobilization, and test the resulting hypotheses with data on health care lobby registrations in the American states during the late 1990s. We find little evidence of short-term counter-mobilization among health interest organizations, which leads us to more fully consider several null hypotheses about the limits of strategic behavior on the part of organized interests.An earlier version of this paper was prepared for presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 2004. This research was supported by a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Award in Health Policy Research (ID#047727). |
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Keywords: | interest groups mobilization counter-mobilization lobbying health politics |
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