Assessing Individuality in Preference Formulation by Lobbying Organisations
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2016-08-29
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en
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Preference formulation is one of the most basic and fundamental
aspects of lobbying; one can hardly conceive of a form of lobbying in
which no preferences are voiced with public o cials. Also, lobbying is
often regarded and conceptualised as a collective enterprise.
Nonetheless, there has been very little research that looks at the size
and robustness of the theorised relationship between interaction among
organisations on the one hand and their formulation of preferences on
the other hand, with Bunea (2013, 2015) as a notable exception. I nd
evidence for increased similarity of expressed preferences with
institutionally tied organisations in a new case regarding legislation on
CO2 emissions by cars, providing further validation for Bunea's ndings.
I also add to Bunea's model by taking into account network size, and
add value by correcting for some serious methodological issues that
accompany the data structure of a dyadic data set.
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Faculteit der Managementwetenschappen