TY - JOUR
T1 - Mapping interest group access to politics
T2 - a presentation of the INTERARENA research project
AU - Binderkrantz, Anne Skorkjær
AU - Christiansen, Peter Munk
AU - Pedersen, Helene Helboe
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Studies of the political role of interest groups rely on mapping their presence in politics. This article presents the INTERARENA research project which mapped interest group access to the administration, parliament and the news media across several countries. The project departed from a definition of access that emphasized the role of gatekeepers in different political arenas. The article discusses the ambitions of the research project and the subsequent choice of empirical indicators for political access. In addition, it presents the data sources used and provides an overview of the data collected. The described datasets are available online for other researchers interested in empirical mapping of group access to politics.
AB - Studies of the political role of interest groups rely on mapping their presence in politics. This article presents the INTERARENA research project which mapped interest group access to the administration, parliament and the news media across several countries. The project departed from a definition of access that emphasized the role of gatekeepers in different political arenas. The article discusses the ambitions of the research project and the subsequent choice of empirical indicators for political access. In addition, it presents the data sources used and provides an overview of the data collected. The described datasets are available online for other researchers interested in empirical mapping of group access to politics.
KW - Access
KW - Interest groups
KW - Political arenas
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85089396620&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1057/s41309-020-00095-9
DO - 10.1057/s41309-020-00095-9
M3 - Journal article
SN - 2047-7414
VL - 9
SP - 290
EP - 301
JO - Interest Groups and Advocacy
JF - Interest Groups and Advocacy
IS - 3
ER -