The promises of quantitative text analysis in interest group research: A reply to Bunea and Ibenskas

Heike Klüver

European Union Politics, 2015, vol. 16, issue 3, 456-466

Abstract: Quantitative text analysis constitutes a promising new method that allows for measuring the policy positions and the lobbying success of interest groups by analyzing their submissions to legislative consultations ( Klüver, 2009 ). The use of quantitative text analysis allowed me to present a novel and unique research design which was the largest in scope at the time and resulted in important new insights regarding the determinants of lobbying success ( Klüver, 2009 , 2011 , 2013 ). In their recent article, Bunea and Ibenskas (2015) however question the usefulness of quantitative text analysis for studying interest groups and discuss several issues which in their view constitute important disadvantages of the technique. In this article I carefully discuss each of their arguments and show that none of their objections actually prevents scholars from successfully using quantitative text analysis to study interest groups in the European Union and beyond.

Keywords: Influence; interest groups; lobbying; quantitative text analysis; Wordfish (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1177/1465116515581669

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