Description & Citation--Study No. 9601

• Bibliographic Description
• Scope of Study
• Methodology
• Access and Availability

Bibliographic Description

09601

Activities and Maintenance Strategies of Interest Groups in the United States, 1980 and 1985

Walker, Jack L. Jr.

National Science Foundation

Guggenheim Foundation

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Earhart Foundation

Walker, Jack L. Jr. Activities and Maintenance Strategies of Interest Groups in the United States, 1980 and 1985. ICPSR09601-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1991. doi:10.3886/ICPSR09601.v1

Scope of Study

This data collection was designed to study the organization and maintenance strategies of voluntary membership organizations with offices in Washington, D.C. Major areas of investigation include how groups overcome funding hurdles when first created, benefits provided to entice members to join a group, types of lobbying efforts engaged in, and characteristics of the organization's membership and structure.

associations, funding, interest groups, lobbying, memberships, organizational behavior, organizations

Washington, DC

Voluntary membership organizations listed in the Congressional Quarterly's WASHINGTON INFORMATION DIRECTORY, 1979, 1984, supplemented with groups in the ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ASSOCIATIONS.

survey data

Methodology

Census, mail survey. A complete description of the sampling design and methodology can be found in Walker, Jack L., Jr. MOBILIZING INTEREST GROUPS IN AMERICA. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1991.

self-enumerated questionnaires

Access and Availability

Detailed file-level information (such as record length, case count, and variable count) is listed in the file manifest.

1991-10-23

• 2006-01-12 All files were removed from dataset 4 and flagged as study-level files, so that they will accompany all downloads.

• DS1: 1980 Data
• DS2: 1985 Data
• DS3: Panel Data