Political activity is conventionally considered a constitutive feature of interest groups,
underpinning an impressive literature on the strategies groups employ to exercise political …

We know a great deal about how and why interest groups form, including why individuals
choose to give their time and resources to political organizations, but we know very little …

Interest group activity is always affected by the political environment in which groups
operate. As a result, effective study of public interest groups must situate them in a larger …

Why do some associations provide members with an effective voice whereas others appear
to have internal democracy in name only? We theoretically combine population ecology with …

Which membership-based voluntary organizations constitutive of civil society such as
parties, interest groups or service-oriented organizations keep their members active and …

This article argues that niche party formation is only one of several substitutable strategies
for niche activists seeking policy influence. Other organizational mechanisms are argued to …

138 The Organization Ecology of Interest Communities the key organizational objective of
interest groups. It is well established in the literature, however, that this is not the case …

This paper investigates the strategic choices interest groups make in choosing which
political institutions to lobby given their internal resources (lobbying staff, budget, group …

Bias in the composition of interest communities is often explained by reference to variations
in the collective action constraint facing voluntary and nonvoluntary organizations. But with …

This paper assesses the development of the modeling of group behavior in the interest
group literature. Throughout the literature, interest groups have been modeled in multiple …