Empirical Study of Interest Group Activity and Membership in Britain : Preliminary Data Report, 1993

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This study has three main aims: 1) The collection of theoretically informed empirical data on British interest groups; 2) The comparison of that data with comparable US material; 3) Improvement in understanding of decisions by potential members about joining interest groups.

Main Topics:

Membership characteristics of survey groups (i.e. FOE, Amnesty, NFU (Scotland), NFU (Countryside) etc.); motivation for joining; method of joining; demographic information - membership profiles.

Simple random sample

Postal survey

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-3207-1
Metadata Access https://datacatalogue.cessda.eu/oai-pmh/v0/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_ddi25&identifier=71c8221cb34ded1fc2e5efe59d7f979130e7aa0b7ee91886fde0da130ede40a7
Provenance
Creator Jordan, G., University of Aberdeen, Department of Politics and International Relations
Publisher UK Data Service
Publication Year 1994
Funding Reference Economic and Social Research Council
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Representation
Discipline Economics; Jurisprudence; Law; Social and Behavioural Sciences
Spatial Coverage Great Britain