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On Joining Interest Groups: A Comment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 January 2009

Extract

Following the exchange between Shackleton and Marsh on the work of Olson and its applicability to the case of the Confederation of British Industry, I wish to criticize some of Shackleton's points and develop some of those made by Marsh. I intend to ignore some of Shackleton's criticisms of the methodology Marsh and I employed in our book (for example, our use of semi-structured interviews, a respectable technique in elite interviewing) and instead to concentrate on substantive questions of more general interest.

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Notes and Comments
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1979

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References

1 Shackleton, J. R., ‘Dr Marsh on Olson: a Comment’, British Journal of Political Science, VIII (1978), 375–80CrossRefGoogle Scholar and Marsh, David, ‘More on Joining Interest Groups’, British Journal of Political Science, VIII (1978), 380–4.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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