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The Density of State Interest-Communities: Do Regional Variables Matter?

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  • Virginia Gray
  • David Lowery

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To better understand state interest-group politics, this study compares two approaches to understanding the density of their interest communities. The first approach—Gray and Lowery's energy, stability, area model of density—emphasizes a small set of political and economic variables operative within each state in accounting for density. The second, of which there are several examples, emphasizes a regional level of analysis. The two approaches are evaluated as both independent and complementary accounts of state interest-community density using 1990 state lobby-registration data. Although some evidence of modest underspecification in the Gray and Lowery model is found, regional or spatially based variables only have a small impact on the density of state interest-communities. Copyright , Oxford University Press.

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  • Virginia Gray & David Lowery, 0. "The Density of State Interest-Communities: Do Regional Variables Matter?," Publius: The Journal of Federalism, CSF Associates Inc., vol. 28(2), pages 61-79.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:publus:v:28:y::i:2:p:61-79
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    1. John M. de Figueiredo & Brian Kelleher Richter, 2013. "Advancing the Empirical Research on Lobbying," NBER Working Papers 19698, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.

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