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How Much Do Interest Groups Influence State Economic Growth?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 1989

Paul Brace ,
Youssef Cohen ,
Virginia Gray  and
David Lowery
Paul Brace
Affiliation:
New York University
Youssef Cohen
Affiliation:
New York University
Virginia Gray
Affiliation:
University of Minnesota
David Lowery
Affiliation:
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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Abstract

In the March 1988 issue of this Review, Virginia Gray and David Lowery presented a respecification of Mancur Olson's model of economic growth and tested the revised model with U.S. state data. A special feature of the Gray-Lowery analysis is its more thorough measurement of interest group effects. These investigators found interest group influences quite different from those anticipated by Olson's model. Paul Brace and Youssef Cohen argue that the Gray-Lowery model misspecifies the determinants of state economic growth, overstating the role of interest group size and failing to incorporate crucial exogenous variables. Gray and Lowery join the issue and defend their specification.

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American Political Science Review , Volume 83 , Issue 4 , December 1989 , pp. 1297 - 1308
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Copyright © American Political Science Association 1989

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