Special Interest Groups versus Constituency Representation

Direct and Indirect Representation

How much can a constituency influence the power of its representative in the legislature? We develop a theoretical model of the constituency basis of legislator influence. The key players in the model are interest groups who may receive targeted transfers from the legislature. The model predicts that the amount of transfers that such groups receive is increasing in their ability to help a party...

Types Of Syntagmatic Grammatical Relations And Their Representation

The paper reviews the kinds of representation of syntagmatic grammatical relations typically empl~'ed in grammar models used in computational linguistics. Exemplars of dependencyonly, constituency-only and hybrid constituencydependency approaches will be considered. In a move away fi'om the much discussed question 'Constituency or dependency?', the purpose of the paper is to ask more radically:...

On the Restriction of Characters of Special Linear Groups of Dimension Three

Critical Resource Dependencies and the Europeanization of Domestic Interest Groups

Although EU institutions and policies create additional opportunities for national interest groups to influence policy-making, not all domestic interest groups make use of the extended niche that is provided by the EU. Lagging Europeanization has often been explained by resource-based accounts, i.e. the wealth of interest groups determines their ability to Europeanize. This article explores an ...

IRP Discussion Papers

Some scholars claim that the type of problems with which private welfare agencies deal varies with agency auspices--whether administrative control is national or local, religious or secular. However, there are few empirical discussions of the issue. This paper thus develops and tests hypotheses concerning how auspices relate to the social problems that agencies cover. Results support a series o...