Reexamining the Unheavenly Chorus: Using Ideal Point Estimation to Investigate Interest Group Bias

• In Event: Interest Group Ideology

Brief Overview

We evaluate long-standing claims of interest group bias by developing and evaluating a new set of ideal points, "IGscores," for over 2,600 interest groups in Washington.

Authors

• Jesse M. Crosson, Princeton University and Trinity University

• Alexander C. Furnas, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

• Geoffrey Lorenz, University of Nebraska-Lincoln