Prophets in the Wilderness: An Ecology of Ministerial Organization Participation in Public Affairs
Studies of interest groups typically sample from organizations or lobbyists registered with a government - those already engaged in political action. Because of this design choice, the questions asked of organizational systems are constrained. We take a different tack, pursuing investigation of one...
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| Language: | English |
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[2010]
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Politics and religion
Year: 2010, Volume: 3, Issue: 1, Pages: 150-178 |
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| Summary: | Studies of interest groups typically sample from organizations or lobbyists registered with a government - those already engaged in political action. Because of this design choice, the questions asked of organizational systems are constrained. We take a different tack, pursuing investigation of one organizational form, ministerial organizations (MOs), in a wide variety of systems to ask about whether and how they engage in public affairs across ecologies. Specifically, we ask: What pressures affect whether MOs engage a public versus private purpose? How do MOs forage in public affairs, with what size and diversity of coalition? The data result from a hyper-network survey of MO contacts, identified by a national sample of United Methodist Church clergy. We find, contrary to assertions in previous work that religious interest groups respond to ecological pressures in a similar manner as other interest groups. |
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| ISSN: | 1755-0491 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Politics and religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S1755048309990472 |