Organizational Action Sets in the U.S. and German Labor Policy Domains
研究了20世纪80年代美、德两国劳动政策立法中，公共机构和利益集团如何形成临时联盟影响政策结果，发现商业与劳工联盟对立、无中央协调、组织利益主导行动集形成，政治资源作用较小。
Legislative fights over national policy are often examinedfrom an organizational state perspective -public authorities and organized interest groups form temporary coalitions to influence the outcomes ofpublic policy. We extend this approach using the concepts of event public, collective actor, action set, and opposition network. Analyses of communication network and policy event participation data from the U.S. and German national labor policy domains in the 1980s reveals similar spatial patterns in three dimensions: Opposing business and labor coalitions structured many of the legislativefights; no central body emerged to coordinate actions; and organizational interests were central to action-set formation. Political resources played minor roles. Structural differences between U.S. and German domains are attributed to institutional contexts.