Replication Data for Coalitional Lobbying and Intersectional Representation in American Rulemaking

Interest groups representing the marginalized regularly neglect advocacy on behalf of their most vulnerable constituents -- those with intersectional disadvantage. Yet, they claim that such advocacy is central to their missions. I argue that interest groups representing women, people of color, Native nations, and the poor strategically conduct intersectional advocacy through coalitional lobbying. I test this claim using a new dataset of co-signature patterns within public comments on proposed agency rules submitted by a set of such groups between 2004 and 2014. I find that these groups are significantly more likely to pursue intersectional advocacy in coalitions, but that coalition work, alone, does not relate to influential intersectional advocacy. Rather, it is particular coalition characteristics, including organizational diversity and financial capacity, that relate to such influence. I conclude that collaborative lobbying and variations thereof are effective tactics for mediating representational bias in interest group advocacy and promoting more pluralistic administrative policymaking.

代表边缘群体的利益集团往往忽视为其最弱势的代表群体——即遭遇交叉性弱势（intersectional disadvantage）的群体——开展倡导维权工作。然而此类利益集团却宣称，这类倡导维权工作乃是其使命的核心要义。笔者认为，代表女性、有色人种、原住民群体以及贫困群体的利益集团，会通过联合游说（coalitional lobbying）策略性地开展交叉性倡导（intersectional advocacy）工作。笔者依托2004年至2014年间，此类利益集团就拟议行政机构规章提交的公开意见中的联合署名模式构建全新数据集，以此验证上述论点。研究结果显示，此类利益集团在联合行动中开展交叉性倡导工作的概率显著更高，但仅靠联合行动本身，并不足以催生具有影响力的交叉性倡导实践。实则唯有联合行动的特定属性——包括组织多样性与财务实力——才会与这类影响力存在关联。笔者最终得出结论：联合游说及其衍生形式，是缓解利益集团倡导工作中代表性偏差、推动更具多元包容性的行政决策制定的有效策略。