Agenda Setters, Responders, or Both? Organized Interests and Congressional Agendas
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Sykes, Jennifer E.
- Affiliation: College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Political Science
- Abstract
- At what point organized interests become involved in the policy process is a matter of debate for scholars. On one side are the interest groups scholars who argue that groups set the agenda and members of Congress respond; at the other end of the spectrum are Congressionalists who give credit to those with power over the formal agenda and relegate organized interests to a responsive position. The compromise approach promoted by some is that both are involved in a muddied process to shape the agenda. By looking at activity both before and after arrival on the formal agenda, I test to see which comes first -- the group, the member, or both? Using three different tests for agenda-setting activity, I discern that both members of Congress and organized interests play a role in agenda-setting, but organized interests play the larger part.
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- August 2009
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- Gray, Virginia
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- October 11, 2010
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