ABSTRACT
Laumann and Knoke show that interest groups base their reputations for influence over health policy on structural positions in communication networks. The major finding is that joint activity in the form of participation in coalitions is likely to boost an organization's influence in retirement policy in the form of congressional committee appearances and news media visibility, which is a striking resulting given that the outcomes are distinctly different. Network positions centrality, constraint, and agenda overlap show some significant connection to influence but are not important coalitional activity. Congressional Hearing Testimony of the baseline model, the result for the coalition variable is a positive and strongly significant association with hearing appearances. Influence issues of political power, access, and influence theoretical and empirical puzzles for quite some time. The federal policy data use centrality and constraint for the state-level data. The control for organizations trying to influence the political process by hiring lots of other organizations, use a measure called 'out degrees'.
