Activities and Maintenance Strategies of Interest Groups in the United States, 1980 and 1985 (ICPSR 9601)

Version Date: Jan 12, 2006

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Principal Investigator(s):
Jack L. Jr. Walker

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09601.v1

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Summary

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.

Citation

Walker, Jack L. Jr. Activities and Maintenance Strategies of Interest Groups in the United States, 1980 and 1985. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2006-01-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09601.v1

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Funding

Earhart Foundation, National Science Foundation, Guggenheim Foundation, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

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Distributor(s)

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
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Sample

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.

Universe

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

Data Source

self-enumerated questionnaires

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Original Release Date

1991-10-23

Version History

2018-02-15 The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented. The previous citation was:
  • 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. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09601.v1

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

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