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POLITICAL STUDIES
Volume 53, Issue 4, Pages 694-715Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9248.2005.00552.x
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The literature often contrasts interest groups possessing insider status and outsider groups forced to seek influence through more indirect means. Drawing on data from a survey of all national Danish interest groups, this article demonstrates that most groups have an action repertoire including both direct contacts to bureaucrats and parliamentarians and indirect activities such as media campaigns and mobilizations of members. Different strategies of influence are correlated positively, hence, there is no contradiction between pursuing strategies associated with insider access to decision-making and strategies where pressure is put on decision makers through media contacts and mobilizations. An analysis of four distinct strategies - an administrative, a parliamentary, a media and a mobilization strategy - finds interesting variations in the factors that affect the pursuance of the various strategies of influence. Groups with a privileged position vis-a-vis decision makers have high levels of activities targeting these decision makers, but the lack of a privileged position does not lead groups to pursue indirect strategies. Indirect strategies are most intensively pursued by cause groups and groups who find themselves in a competitive situation with regard to attracting members.
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