Volume 9, Issue 3, September 2020
Table of Content
Special Issue: Data Sources for Interest Group Research
Editorial
Introduction to the special issue on data sources for interest group research
Beth L. Leech
Original Article
The lobbying disclosure act at 25: Challenges and opportunities for analysis
Timothy M. LaPira, Herschel F. Thomas
Original Article
The Comparative Interest Group-survey project: design, practical lessons, and data sets
Jan Beyers, Danica Fink-Hafner, William A. Maloney, Meta Novak, Frederik Heylen
Original Article
Mapping interest group access to politics: a presentation of the INTERARENA research project
Anne Skorkjær Binderkrantz, Peter Munk Christiansen, Helene Helboe Pedersen
Original Article
Following the money: uses and limitations of FEC campaign finance data
Christine B. Williams, Jeff Gulati, Mateusz Zeglen
Original Article
Uncovering interest group participation in Germany: web collection of written statements in ministries and the parliament
Daniel Rasch, Florian Spohr, Rainer Eising, Simon Ress
Original Article
Large-N bill positions data from MapLight.org: What can we learn from interest groups’ publicly observable legislative positions?
Geoffrey M. Lorenz, Alexander C. Furnas, Jesse M. Crosson
Original Article
Using the Comparative Agendas Project to examine interest group behavior
E. J. Fagan, Brooke Shannon
Original Article
Accessing information about interest group advertising content
Michael M. Franz, Erika Franklin Fowler, Travis N. Ridout
Original Article
Automated estimates of state interest group lobbying populations
Alex Garlick, John Cluverius
Original Article
Out of the public’s eye? Lobbying the President’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs
Simon F. Haeder, Susan Webb Yackee
Original Article
Data and methods for analyzing special interest influence in rulemaking
Daniel Carpenter, Devin Judge-Lord, Brian Libgober, Steven Rashin
Original Article
Old and new data sources and methods for interest group research
Abigail Vegter, Jami K. Taylor, Donald P. Haider-Markel