The Scale of Interest Organization in Democratic Politics

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Estimating Group and Associational Populations: Endemic Problems but Encouraging Progress

   • Darren Halpin, Grant Jordan

   Pages 1-22

3. Counting the Voices in the Heavenly Chorus: Pressure Participants in Washington Politics

   • Kay Lehman Schlozman

   Pages 23-43

4. Interest Organization Populations: The Demands of the Scale of Analysis and the Theoretical Purposes of Counting

   • David Lowery

   Pages 44-66

5. The Changing Contours of British Representation: Pluralism in Practice

   • Grant Jordan, Jamie Greenan

   Pages 67-98

6. Numbers in a Niche: A Practitioner’s Guide to Mapping Gay and Lesbian Groups in the US

   • Anthony J. Nownes

   Pages 99-117

7. Multiple Arenas, Multiple Populations: Counting Organized Interests in Scottish Public Policy

   • Darren Halpin, Graeme Baxter, Iain MacLeod

   Pages 118-140

8. Tracking Interest Group Populations in the US and the UK

   • Grant Jordan, Frank R. Baumgartner, John D. McCarthy, Shaun Bevan, Jamie Greenan

   Pages 141-160

9. The Usual Suspects: Interest Group Dynamics and Representation in Denmark

   • Peter Munk Christiansen

   Pages 161-179

10. Mapping the WTO Interest Group System: Exploring Density, Diversity, and Stability Over Time

    • Marcel Hanegraaff, Jan Beyers, Caelesta Braun

    Pages 180-201

11. Above and Below the Radar: Mapping the Distribution of Civil Society Associations in England

    • John Mohan

    Pages 202-222

12. Counting at the Local Level

    • Jan W. van Deth, William A. Maloney

    Pages 223-244

13. Politics Is Not Basketball: Numbers Are Not Results

    • Grant Jordan, Darren Halpin

    Pages 245-262

14. Back Matter

    Pages 263-267

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Explores the need for political science to pay more attention to complex interactions involving politically relevant groups. Distinguished contributors report on data from around the world and at different levels of political decision making – from 'below the radar' in local communities to global negations at the World Trade Organization.

• decision-making
• interaction
• methods
• organization
• pluralism
• Policy
• political science
• politics

• Department of Political Science, University of Aarhus, Denmark

  Darren Halpin

• Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Aberdeen, UK

  Grant Jordan

FRANK R. BAUMGARTNER Richard J. Richardson Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA SHAUN BEVAN Research Associate in the Institute for Political and Economic Governance, University of Manchester, UK JAN BEYERS Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Antwerp, Belgium CAELESTA BRAUN-POPPELAARS Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Political Science of the University of Antwerp, Belgium JAN W. VAN DETH Professor of Political Science and International Comparative Social Research at the University of Mannheim, Germany JAMIE GREENAN graduated with a Masters in Sociology from Aberdeen University in 2004 and subsequently gained a Masters in Social Research in 2005 also from Aberdeen DARREN HALPIN Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Aarhus University, Denmark MARCEL HANEGRAAFF PhD student at the department of Political Science of the University of Antwerp, Belgium GRANT JORDAN Emeritus Professor, University of Aberdeen, UK DAVID LOWERY Bruce R. Miller and Dean D. LaVigne Professor of Political Science at Pennsylvania State University, USA WILLIAM MALONEY Professor of Politics, Newcastle University, UK IAIN MACLEO Researcher at the Institute for Management, Governance and Society (IMaGeS) at Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, UK JOHN D. MCCARTHY Professor and Head of the Department of Sociology at the Pennsylvania State University, USA JOHN MOHAN Professor of Social Policy, University of Southampton, UK and Deputy Director of the Third Sector Research Centre PETER MUNK CHRISTIANSEN Professor of Political Science at the Department of Political Science, Aarhus University, Denmark ANTHONY NOWNES Professor of Political Science at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA KAY LEHMAN SCHLOZMAN J. Joseph Moakley Endowed Professor of Political Science at Boston College, USA

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