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How does the coordination strategy of interest groups change during a crisis? Shocks reduce an economy's resource pool and increase the competition for what is available. Interest groups participate in the policy-making process by lobbying legislators. In times of crisis, we argue, interest groups lobbying Congress coordinate in cohesive industry-wide communities led by key actors. Rather than lobbying for narrow policy privileges, interest groups seek to support legislation that is most beneficial to their community. To study the cooperative behaviour of interest groups we build an original network dataset based on committee participation in the Ecuadorian Congress between 1996 and 2015. We present evidence of increasingly homophilic industry networks in times of crisis, with umbrella organisations taking the role of hubs. We find that ‘lone wolf’ strategies, prevalent during an economic expansion, are less prevalent during a crisis.

How do shocks realign interest group lobbying in congress? Evidence from ecuador