Doctoral Dissertation Research in Political Science: Consensus and Conflict: Interest Group Strategies in the Policy Process

这篇博士论文研究支持调查分析了竞争利益集团用来影响公共政策执行的策略。具体地说，学生调查小组在实施《濒危物种法》(生境保护规划)第10(1)条时选择合作的情况。这位学生认为，政治和结构环境通过确定群体可用的冲突策略与合作策略的相对优势来塑造这种选择。关于战略选择的决定取决于外部政治背景、群体资源能力和问题的根本性质。通过将重点放在实施时的群体行为上，分析将有助于我们理解政策过程、合作和政治行为。博士论文研究支持项目分几个阶段进行。对选定的穷国进行深入的案例研究分析将使假设得到完善，并提高研究的有效性。使用跨越多个政策领域的更广泛的现有研究对该模型进行分析。主要的数据收集策略包括对群体行为的电子邮件调查。收集到的数据可以评估那些影响群体选择的背景因素。

This Doctoral Dissertation Research Support investigation analyzes the strategies competing interest groups use to influence implementation of public policy. Specifically, the student investigates group's choice to cooperate in the implementation of Section 10(1) of the Endangered Species Act (Habitat Conservation Planning). The student argues that the political and structural environments shape this choice by determining the relative advantages of conflictual versus cooperative strategies available to groups. Decisions regarding strategy choice are conditional upon the external political context, group resource capacity, and underlying nature of the problem. By focusing on group behavior at implementation, the analysis will contribute to our understanding of the policy process, and cooperation and political behavior.The Doctoral Dissertation Research Support project proceeds in several stages. In-depth case study analysis of selected HCPs will allow refinement of the hypotheses and enhance the study's validity. The analysis of the model using a broader, existing study, spanning multiple policy areas proceeds. The primary data collection strategy includes an electronic mail survey of group behavior. The data collected allow assessment of those contextual factors that influence the choices groups make.