Using Expert Evaluations to Scale Organized Interest Ideology

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

Brief Overview

We use responses from a survey of lobbyists to estimate the perceived political preferences of over 1,600 interest groups. We use these scores to assess whether groups contribute to members of Congress to whom they are ideologically proximate.

Authors

• Benjamin Egerid, Copenhagen Business School

• Hans J.G. Hassell, Florida State University

• Josh McCrain, University of Utah

• David Ryan Miller, University of California-Riverside