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Agendas and Interest Groups

议程和兴趣小组

基本信息

批准号：
ES/N018915/1
负责人：
Amy McKay
金额：
$ 61.38万
依托单位：
UNIVERSITY OF EXETER
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2016
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2016 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FN018915%2F1
关键词：
Agendas Interest Groups

项目摘要

The influence of interest groups in politics poses potential threats to democracy. The challenges of collective action predict that the groups most likely to be represented will have concentrated economic interests or intensely held beliefs, resulting in policies at odds with general public opinion. While such biases in representation are clear in theory, there is scant systematic evidence of disproportionate influence over government by a subset of interest groups. Further, social scientists know little about the degree of correspondence between the political preferences of interest groups and those of the public. Agendas and Interest Groups is a comparative project that for the first time will address concerns about the role of interest group influence by focusing attention on policy agendas and analyzing the circumstances under which specific types of groups and citizens find their issues represented before government. To estimate the degree of congruence between the concerns of citizens and the policy agendas of interest groups and government, we will interview representatives from a random sample of 100 interest groups in each of our four countries, survey the general public in each country about their policy wishes, and track three specific issues in each of three policy areas in each country. In mapping each country's public, group, and government agendas, we aim to address normatively important questions about the extent and causes of inequalities in representation.

利益集团在政治中的影响对民主构成潜在威胁。集体行动的挑战预示着，最有可能被代表的群体将拥有集中的经济利益或强烈的信仰，导致政策与公众舆论不一致。虽然这种代表性的偏见在理论上是明确的，但很少有系统的证据表明，一个利益集团的子集对政府的影响不成比例。此外，社会科学家对利益集团的政治偏好与公众的政治偏好之间的对应程度知之甚少。《利益集团和利益集团》是一个比较项目，将首次关注政策议程，分析特定类型的群体和公民在政府面前代表自己的问题的情况，从而解决对利益集团影响作用的担忧。为了评估公民的关注与利益集团和政府的政策议程之间的一致程度，我们将从我们四个国家的100个利益集团中随机抽样采访代表，调查每个国家的公众对他们的政策意愿，并跟踪每个国家三个政策领域中的三个具体问题。在绘制每个国家的公共，团体和政府议程时，我们的目标是解决有关代表性不平等的程度和原因的规范性重要问题。