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  • Comparing membership interest group networks across space and time, size, issue and industry*

  • JANET M. BOX-STEFFENSMEIER, DINO P. CHRISTENSON
  • Journal:
    Network Science / Volume 3 / Issue 1 / March 2015
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    12 February 2015, pp. 78-97

  • We compare and contrast the network formation of interest groups across industry and issue area. We focus on membership interest groups, which by virtue of representing the interests of voluntary members face particular organizational and maintenance constraints. To reveal their cooperative behavior we build a network dataset based on cosigner status to United States Supreme Court amicus curiae briefs and analyze it with exponential random graph models and multidimensional scaling. Our methodological approach culminates in a clear and compact spatial representation of network similarities and differences. We find that while many of the same factors shape membership networks, religious, labor, and political organizations do not share the same structure as each other or as the business, civic and professional groups.