Lobbying influence: Meaning, measurement and missing
Lobbying influence: Meaning, measurement and missing
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游说影响力：意义、衡量和缺失
DOI：
10.1057/iga.2012.20
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发表时间：
2013
影响因子：
0.8
通讯作者：
D. Lowery
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作者：
D. Lowery
执行摘要 关于利益组织在民主政治中的影响的研究常常得出无效的结果。我们该如何看待这些结果呢？在某种程度上，答案可能在于我们对影响力的理解——影响力是什么以及什么可能构成影响力的证据。但即使在更好的研究设计中考虑了更完整的影响力概念，无效结果仍然会出现。它们值得解释。为了解决这些问题，我将首先通过探索 20 世纪 50 年代和 1960 年代有关城市权力的较早理论文献，尝试提供更广泛的影响力概念及其许多可能的含义，并在此过程中考虑不同的解释可能告诉我们关于游说的什么信息。其次，我将制定一份无效假设目录，并讨论这些假设如何解释影响力研究中的许多无效发现。最后，我讨论了这一分析对影响力研究未来的影响。
Executive SummaryAll too often, research on the influence of interest organizations in democratic politics produces null findings. What are we to make of these results? In part, the answer may lie in our conception of influence – what it is and what might constitute evidence for it. But even when more complete conceptions of influence are considered in better research designs, null results will still occur. They merit explanation. To address these issues, I will first try to provide a broader conception of influence and its many possible meanings by exploring the older theoretical literature on urban power from the 1950s and 1960s, considering along the way what the different interpretations might tell us about lobbying. And second, I will develop a catalog of null hypotheses and discuss how these bear on interpreting the many null findings in influence research. Finally, I discuss the implications of this analysis for the future of influence research.