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Interest Groups & Public within a State Legislative Setting

Regretably, systematic inquiry into the power and influence of interest groups is long on theory and short on data. Case studies indeed abound, but precious little information of a quantifiable nature exists indicating the presence or absence of group success. The reasons for such a paucity of data are both clear and understandable, and they need little elaboration here. Suffice it to say that it is (1) difficult to compare interest groups, (2) hard to measure what individual interests want, and (3) nearly impossible to find out if what was originally desired was achieved. It is little wonder that political scientists have taken to evaluating success based on intuitive perceptions of political participants, whether a group's old friends are still listening, or whether or not a very few major issues fall into a group's favor.