The Ideologies of Organized Interests and Amicus Curiae Briefs: Large-Scale, Social Network Imputation of Ideal Points

IF 4.7 2区 社会学 Q1 POLITICAL SCIENCE Political Analysis Pub Date : 2023-01-26 DOI:10.1017/pan.2022.34
Sahar Abi-Hassan, J. Box-Steffensmeier, Dino P. Christenson, A. Kaufman, Brian Libgober
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Abstract Interest group ideology is theoretically and empirically critical in the study of American politics, yet our measurement of this key concept is lacking both in scope and time. By leveraging network science and ideal point estimation, we provide a novel measure of ideology for amicus curiae briefs and organized interests with accompanying uncertainty estimates. Our Amicus Curiae Network scores cover more than 12,000 unique groups and more than 11,000 briefs across 95 years, providing the largest and longest measure of organized interest ideologies to date. Substantively, the scores reveal that: interests before the Court are ideologically polarized, despite variance in their coalition strategies; interests that donate to campaigns are more conservative and balanced than those that do not; and amicus curiae briefs were more common from liberal organizations until the 1980s, with ideological representation virtually balanced since then.
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有组织利益的意识形态与法庭之友简报:理想点的大规模、社会网络归因
摘要利益集团意识形态在美国政治研究中具有理论和经验上的重要意义,但我们对这一关键概念的衡量在范围和时间上都缺乏。通过利用网络科学和理想点估计,我们为法庭之友简报和组织利益提供了一种新的意识形态测量方法,并附带了不确定性估计。我们的法庭之友网络(Amicus curae Network)评分涵盖了95年来超过1.2万个独特群体和1.1万多份简报,提供了迄今为止规模最大、时间最长的有组织利益意识形态衡量标准。从本质上讲,得分表明:尽管他们的联盟战略不同,但法院面前的利益在意识形态上是两极化的;为竞选捐款的利益集团比不捐款的利益集团更为保守和平衡;直到20世纪80年代,“法庭之友”意见书在自由派组织中更为常见,从那以后,意识形态代表几乎达到了平衡。
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