studying preference attainment using spatial models

Vannoni, Matia; Dür, Andreas

doi:10.1057/eps.2016.13

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“…1680-4333/16 www.palgrave-journals.com/eps measure influence has evolved in a substantial number of works and over several decades (Dahl, 1961;Dür, 2007;Leech, 2010;Riker, 1964;Truman, 1951, see also Vannoni, 2016). We will not delve deeper into this debate but rather focus on one of the avenues that have been pursued in the attempt to come closer to an answer of who is influential.…”

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what is access? a discussion of the definition and measurement of interest group access

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Interest group research has focused extensively on political access. While access does not guarantee influence, it is customarily seen as a crucial step towards gaining political influence. It is argued that groups with access are, all else equal, more likely to be influential than groups without access. Biased access may thus result in biased influence. On the basis of a review of this literature, the article shows how the concept of access rests on an intuitive understanding rather than an explicit definition. This hampers methodological discussions of measurement. We propose to define access as instances where a group has entered a political arena (parliament, administration, or media) passing a threshold controlled by relevant gatekeepers (politicians, civil servants, or journalists). On the basis of this discussion, we compare operationalisations based on our proposed definition with some of the major alternatives found in the literature.

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“…In the first instance, this requires carefully cataloguing industry actors' preferences on discrete rules, identifying rules that are omitted, and then following them to see where they end up. Quantitative approaches to preference attainment would therefore be applied across different venues for rules to migrate (see Vannoni 2017). Critically, this would need to be carried out at the level of the individual rule and not the proposal in its entirety.…”

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“…Of course, this approach is not unique to those studying the politics of financial regulation. In fact, preference attainment has become the gold standard for measuring influence in the broader interest group literature (see Vannoni 2017). Whether the focus is on finance or interest group influence in general, the problem with this approach is that it ignores a critical component of what it means to win or lose, namely when some proposed rule is excluded from finalized legislation.…”

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Rule omission, rule migration and the limits of financial industry power

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Malik

2021

European J Political Res

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This paper seeks to deepen our understanding of financial industry lobbying efforts that result in specific regulatory rules being dropped from the regulatory agenda, or what we call 'rule omission'. Critically, existing research either ignores rule omission or characterizes it as the pinnacle of lobbying success. We argue that only in carefully mapping out industry preferences and tracking what happens to rules following their omission can we say something about the extent to which finance wins or loses in its effort to shape regulation. Our analysis is based on two in-depth case studies from the European Union: (1) solvency rules in the Institutions for Occupational Retirement Provision Directive (IORPP II), where rule omission does reflect a strong case of industry influence; and (2) short selling rules in the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD), a case of rule omission resulting in more stringent rules over industry activities.

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“…Carefully delimiting the scope conditions of her generalizations on this instance of a strong and slow boring of hardboards, her analysis exemplifies the potential contribution of case studies to cumulative knowledge formation in research on interest group influence. Vannoni (2016) scrutinizes the usefulness of spatial modeling for the study of interest group influence in a case study of EU tobacco control. First of all, the author engages in the conceptual clarification of influence as the causal link between the interest group's actions and the policy outcomes on the one hand, and preference attainment or success as the extent to which the outcome matches the interest group's preferences on the other.…”

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studying interest groups: methodological challenges and tools

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2017

Eur Polit Sci

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Research on interest groups has evolved from a focus on small-N studies to larger-N studies in the past 15 years. While both European and American research has become more sophisticated and aware of methodological aspects, there is yet no specialized literature on methods regarding how to study interest groups. Only few studies discuss the methodological implications of interest group studies, as well as the transferability of methods employed in other areas of political science to this research area. The contributions in this symposium focus on major problems and topics in interest group research and elaborate methods to deal with them: (1) the identification of the relevant interest group population, (2) the analysis of interest group strategies such as access, (3) the identification of interest groups positions and frames, and (4) the measurement of interest group success and influence. The introduction outlines these research problems and describes how the contributions to this symposium address them. The aim of the symposium is to increase awareness of the intricacies of these research problems, outline suitable practices to handle them, and stimulate debate on these methodological aspects.

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studying preference attainment using spatial models

Cited by 10 publications

References 51 publications

what is access? a discussion of the definition and measurement of interest group access

what is access? a discussion of the definition and measurement of interest group access

Rule omission, rule migration and the limits of financial industry power

studying interest groups: methodological challenges and tools

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