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JENNIFER ANDERSON
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
ADAM
NEWMARK
Wake Forest University
VIRGINIA GRAY
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
DAVID
LOWERY
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Mayflies and
Old Bulls: Organization Persistence in State Interest Communities
Many conventional
accounts of lobbying communities emphasize towering differences in political
influence between for-profit and not-for-profit and public organizations
and between institutions and membership groups or associations. A central
cause of these differences in influence is said to be differences
in the persistence of these types of groups in a lobbying system. We test
this hypothesis by examining the short-term turnover of organized interests
in state interest communities in the 1990s. While we find evidence of
substantial year-to-year turnover in lobby registrations, we find little
support for the conventional wisdom about the distribution of persistence
among types of organizations. Contrary to expectations, institutions are
markedly less persistent than membership groups and associations, and
for-profit interests are no more persistent, on average, than not-for-profit
interests.
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