Friends, Brokers, and Transitivity: Who Informs Whom in Washington Politics?
In: The journal of politics: JOP, Band 66, Heft 1, S. 224-246
ISSN: 1468-2508
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In: The journal of politics: JOP, Band 66, Heft 1, S. 224-246
ISSN: 1468-2508
In: Journal of theoretical politics, Band 10, Heft 4, S. 417-444
ISSN: 1460-3667
How does policy information flow through Washington `issue networks'? And how does information flow determine which lobbyists get access in policy-making? Drawing upon the `strength of weak ties' argument, the authors argue that policy information passes more through acquaintances (`weak ties') than through close, trusted, contacts (`strong ties'). They support this argument in an analysis of data on lobbying networks in health-care policy-making in the 1970s and 1980s. The statistical analyses show that access to policy-makers in Washington is network-autocorrelated: a lobbyist's access depends upon the access of other lobbyists s/he knows. The results demonstrate the importance of weak ties as a restricted form of `social capital' in policy-making.
In: Journal of theoretical politics, Band 10, Heft 4, S. 417
ISSN: 0951-6298
In: American political science review, Band 106, Heft 2, S. 367-386
ISSN: 0003-0554