Taking Sides: Party Competition, Interest Group Strategy, and the Polarization of American Pluralism

• In Event: Interest Groups: New Frontiers in Data and Measurement

Brief Overview

We examine whether interest groups have always been well sorted and extreme in their policy preferences and 2) the factors that explain groups' willingness to align with a single “side” of the partisan and ideological spectrum.

Authors

• Jesse M. Crosson, Purdue University

• Alexander Furnas, Northwestern University

• Geoffrey Miles Lorenz, University of Nebraska-Lincoln