Legislative ratings as a metric of goal cohesion within interest groups: Business vs. labor

C. Hetzner and Stu Westin

Public Choice, 1987, vol. 53, issue 1, 39 pages

Abstract: This study investigates the instrumental goals of business and labor by analyzing legislative ratings issued by a number of organizations. Results indicate that the business community is more diverse in its political goals than is the labor community. The methodology employed is as follows. First, a business/labor categorical scheme is validated by using cluster analysis. Next, the degree of cohesion of the goals of business is compared with that of labor. Euclidean distance, which represents the degree of dissimilarity in the evaluation of Congress, is the metric used for this purpose. Copyright Martinus Nijhoff Publishers 1987

Date: 1987
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