Interest Group and Political Party Influence on Growth in State Spending and Debt

Holyoke, Thomas T.; Cummins, Jeff

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“…Jie sukuria prielaidas priimamų sprendimų racionalumui, politikos viešumui bei valdžios institucijų informuotumui. Užsienio šalių mokslininkai organizuotų interesų samprata dažnai vartoja kaip sinonimą interesų grupių sampratai (Holyoke, Cummins (2020); Berkhout ir kt. (2018); Djupe, Lewis (2015); Francia (2010); Michael (2006); Lindblom, Woodhouse (1999); Caldeira, Wright (1988), Gable (1957) ir kt.…”

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Management of the Influence of Organized Interests on Public Policy

Gumuliauskienė

2021

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The article analyzes the management of the influence of organized interests on public policy. The article reveals the concept of organized interests, the essential differences in comparing the concepts of organized interests and interest groups. The article takes the view that organized interests are a more neutral concept that better explains the nature of all actors seeking to influence public policy-making. The author of the article is of the opinion that the concept of interest groups – due to the disagreement of scientists in defining it – causes a lot of confusion when comparing the results of different researches and using the theoretical insights of other scientists. Organized interests interact with other public policy makers to influence policy outcomes. This article analyzes the ways in which organized interests can influence public policy. According to the author of the article, by identifying the ways of influencing public policy, it is possible to envisage ways to manage that influence. The article applies methods of analysis, synthesis, generalization and comparative analysis of scientific literature.

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Management of the Influence of Organized Interests on Public Policy

Gumuliauskienė

2021

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“…In their account, government awards additional selective benefits as additional groups mobilize. Similarly, Holyoke and Cummins (2020) argue that interest groups push state governments to spend more and accrue more debt, particularly for selective benefits. Still others suggest that groups extract benefits via regulatory capture (e.g., Peltzman 1976; Stigler 1971).…”

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“…Similar analyses have neglected the revolution because of limited datasets. By examining cross-sections of states starting in 1975, or yearly observations from the past decade, other studies generally find no or conditional relationships between lawmaking or government spending, and lobbying (e.g., Boehmke 2005; Holyoke and Cummins 2020; Lowery and Gray 1998; Strickland 2019b). These studies miss a pivotal time in the states, and their findings are at odds with studies of congressional lobbying.…”

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A Quiet Revolution in State Lobbying: Government Growth and Interest Populations

Strickland

2020

Political Research Quarterly

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What explains contemporary numbers of interest groups in America? To answer this question and help address conflicting narratives in research, I examine the rise of interest groups in the states. Assembling an original dataset based on archival and secondary sources, I find that relatively few groups lobbied legislators prior to the 1960s or 1970s. During those decades, numbers of interest groups began to grow rapidly. I find that increases in lawmaking activities present inconsistent effects on the political mobilization of groups but increases in spending are strongly correlated with mobilization. In additional tests, I find that the effects of spending on group numbers vary by state and are not discernible in most states. In general, a historic transformation of state governments helps to account for the growth of state lobbying. Interest groups have remained active in state capitols ever since.

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“…The studies in the literature generally determine that pressure and interest groups have a positive effect on the public sector size (McCormick & Tollison, 1981;Mueller & Murrell, 1986;Fiorino & Ricciuti, 2009;Yamamura, 2012). The relationship among variables in the studies like the ones of Bacot and Dawes (1986), Gray and Lowery (1988), Newmark and Witko (2007), Randolph and Tasto (2012), and Holyoke and Cummins (2019), determine that interest groups have a positive effect on public expenditures in the USA for the period 2006-2015. Similarly, Randolph and Tasto (2012) conducted a spatial analysis for the states within the USA and reached the conclusion that public expenditures are crucial in the formation of special interest groups through states.…”

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The impact of interest groups on government size-regional evidence from Turkey

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2021

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This study is aimed to investigate the regional pressure groups' effect on the government size in Turkey. According to the public choice theory, elections, political parties, interest and pressure groups, and bureaucracy significantly affect the public production process. Among these actors, pressure and interest groups directly affect variables such as economic growth and public expenditures. In this study, panel data analysis was used to observe the regional effect. The research data set covered 81 provinces of Turkey and the period between 2006 and 2018. According to the results, it was found that interest and pressure groups increase the public expenditures in the less developed regions in Turkey. These results are consistent with the empirical and theoretical studies. For this reason, the study has an important contribution to the literature. This study offers significant conclusions that public economic policies might be under the influence of interest and pressure groups. Even if stated that the results of this study might have many economic, demographic, social, and political reasons regarding Turkey, in the context of public choice theory, it could be seen as a significant indicator of not using public expenditure policies as efficient instruments. This situation shows that public resources are not used efficiently in Turkey and the government has a negative effect on the economy. To eradicate this negative effect, governments coming to power in the future ought to produce economic, political, and social policies in order to decrease the regional differences dramatically in Turkey.

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Interest Group and Political Party Influence on Growth in State Spending and Debt

Cited by 5 publications

References 61 publications

Management of the Influence of Organized Interests on Public Policy

Management of the Influence of Organized Interests on Public Policy

A Quiet Revolution in State Lobbying: Government Growth and Interest Populations

The impact of interest groups on government size-regional evidence from Turkey

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