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Interest group–party linkage in the twenty‐first century: Evidence from D enmark, the N etherlands and the U nited K ingdom
Author(s) -
Rasmussen Anne,
Lindeboom GertJan
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
european journal of political research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.267
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1475-6765
pISSN - 0304-4130
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-6765.2012.02069.x
Subject(s) - linkage (software) , interest group , institutionalisation , group (periodic table) , logit , political science , social psychology , demographic economics , business , economics , psychology , econometrics , politics , biology , law , chemistry , genetics , organic chemistry , gene
This article systematically investigates interest group–party interactions in the N etherlands, D enmark and the U nited K ingdom based on cross‐national surveys with responses from 1,225 interest groups. The findings show that interest groups and parties still interact in the beginning of the twenty‐first century, but that the vast majority of their interaction involves a low degree of institutionalisation. Using fractional logit analysis, it is demonstrated that the strength of interest group–party linkage is primarily affected by systematic differences in state–society structures and organisational group characteristics. Moreover, differences are found in what conditions different types of interaction. Whereas historical legacies and partisan origin influence an interest group's structural party links, group resources make interactions of a less institutionalised, ad hoc nature more likely.