Religion and the demand for membership in environmental citizen groups

Public Choice

Volumn 94, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 223-240

  Lowry, Robert C ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032387218     PISSN: 00485829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1017921310610     Document Type: Article

References (56)

1. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations. (1991). Significant features of fiscal federalism. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.
2. Becker, G.S. (1983). A theory of competition among pressure groups for political influence. Quarterly Journal of Economics 98: 371-400.
3. Becker, G.S. (1985). Public policies, pressure groups, and dead weight costs. Journal of Public Economics 28: 329-347.
4. Borelli, P. (1986). Epiphany: Religion, ethics, and the environment. The Amicus Journal 7(3): 34-41.
5. Bosso, C.J. (1995). After the movement: Environmental activism in the 1990s. In N.J. Vig and M.E. Kraft (Eds.), Environmental policy in the 1990s, 31-50. Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2d edition.
6. Bradley, M.B., Green, N.M. Jr., Jones, D.E., Lynn, M., and McNeil, M. (1992). Churches and church membership in the United States, 1990. Atlanta: Glenmary Research Center.
7. Coates, D. and Munger, M.C. (1995). Legislative voting and the economic theory of politics. Southern Economic Journal 61: 861-72.
8. Downs, A. (1957). An economic theory of democracy. New York: Harper and Row. Ducks Unlimited. (1994, November/December). Ducks unlimited.
9. Eckberg, D.L. and Blocker, T.J. (1989). Varieties of religious involvement and environmental concerns: Testing the Lynn White thesis. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 28: 509-517.
10. Godwin, R.K. and Mitchell, R.C. (1984). The implications of direct mail for political organizations. Social Science Quarterly 65: 829-839.
11. Grier, K.B. (Ed.). (1993). Empirical studies of ideology and representation in American politics [Special issue]. Public Choice 76(1-2).
12. Gunderson, C. (1984). Friend and FOE in the ecology movement. Utne Reader 18: 17-18.
13. Hand, C.M. and Van Liere, K.D. (1984). Religion, mastery-over-nature, and environmental concern. Social Forces 63: 555-70.
14. Hansen, J.M. (1985). The political economy of group membership. American Political Science Review 79: 79-96.
15. Hinich, M.J. and Munger, M.C. (1994). Ideology and the theory of political choice Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
16. Hodgkinson, V.A., Weitzman, M.S., Toppe, C.M., and Noga, S.M. (1992). Nonprofit almanac 1992-1993 Washington, DC: Independent Sector.
17. Jackson, J.E. and Kingdon, J.W. (1992). Ideology, interest group scores, and legislative votes. American Journal of Political Science 36: 805-23.
18. Kalt, J.P. (1981). The economics and politics of oil price regulation. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
19. Kalt, J.P. and Zupan, M.A. (1984). Capture and ideology in the economy theory of politics. American Economic Review 74: 279-300.
20. Kalt, J.P. and Zupan, M.A. (1990). The apparent ideological behavior of legislators: Testing for principal-agent slack in political institutions. Journal of Law and Economics 33: 103-31.
21. Kanagy, C.L. and Willits, F.K. (1993). A greening of religion? Some evidence from a Pennsylvania sample. Social Science Quarterly 74: 674-83.
22. Kau, J.B. and Rubin, P.H. (1979a). Public interest lobbies: Membership and influence. Public Choice 34:45-54.
23. Kau, J.B. and Rubin, P.H. (1979b). Self-interest, ideology and logrolling in congressional voting. Journal of Law and Economics 22: 365-84.
24. Kau, J.B. and Rubin, P.H. (1982). Congressmen, constituents and contributions. Boston: Martinus Nijhoff Publishing.
25. Kau, J.B. and Rubin, P.H. (1993). Ideology, voting and shirking. Public Choice 76: 151-172.
26. Lyman, F. (Ed.). (1993). What's new in the noosphere? The key to healing the planet lies within [Symposium]. The Amicus Journal 14(4): 20-34.
27. Matsusaka, J.G. and Kahn, M.E. (1991). Interest groups and the environment: A study of initiative voting patterns. Working Paper No. 91-32, School of Business Administration, University of Southern California.
28. McCloskey, M. (1992). Twenty years of change in the environmental movement: An insider's view." In R.E. Dunlap and A.G. Mertig (Eds.), American environmentalism: The U.S. environmental movement 1970-1990 77-88. Washington, DC: Taylor and Francis.
29. Mitchell, R.C. (1989). From conservation to environmental movement: The development of the modern environmental lobby. In M.J. Lacey (Ed.), Government and environmental politics: Essays on historical developments since world war II, 81-113. Washington, DC: Wilson Center Press.
30. Moe, T.M. (1980). A calculus of group membership. American Journal of Political Science 24: 593-632.
31. Mosher, L. (1989). Washington's green giants. The Amicus Journal 11(4): 34-39.
32. Nelson, P. (1994). Voting and imitative behavior. Economic Inquiry 32: 92-102.
33. Olson, M. (1965). The logic of collective action: Public goods and the theory of groups. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
34. Pashigian, B.P. (1985). Environmental regulation: Whose self-interests are being protected?" Economic Inquiry 23: 551-84.
35. Peltzman, S. (1984). Constituent interest and congressional voting. Journal of Law and Economics 27: 181-210. ]
36. Peltzman, S. (1985). An economic interpretation of the history of congressional voting in the Twentieth Century. American Economic Review 75: 656-675.
37. Quinn, B, Anderson, H., Bradley, M., Goetting, P. and Shriver, P. (1982). Churches and church membership in the United States, 1980. Atlanta: Glenmary Research Center.
38. Resources for the Future. (1978). Environmental action survey, computer data file USMISCRFF78-ENVRN, The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, Storrs, CT.
39. Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation. (1994, Summer). Bugle.
40. Rosenstone, S.J. and Hansen, J.M. (1993). Mobilization, participation, and democracy in America. New York: MacMillan Publishing Company.
41. Rothenberg, L.S. (1988). Organizational maintenance and the retention decision in groups. American Political Science Review 82: 1129-1152.
42. Rothenberg, L.S. (1989). Putting the puzzle together: Why people join public interest groups. Public Choice 60: 241-257.
43. Rothenberg, L.S. (1992). Linking citizens to government: Interest group politics at common cause. New York: Cambridge University Press.
44. Shabecoff, P. (1993). A fierce green fire: The American environmental movement. New York: Hill and Wang.
45. Shaiko, R.G. (1987). Religion, politics, and environmental concern: A powerful mix of passions. Social Science Quarterly 68: 244-262.
46. Smith, V.K. (1985). A theoretical analysis of the 'green lobby' American Political Science Review 79: 132-147.
47. Stigler, G.J. (1971). The economic theory of regulation. Bell Journal of Economics and Management Science 2: 1-21.
48. Stigler, G.J. (1974). Free riders and collective action: An appendix to theories of economic regulation. Bell Journal of Economics and Management Science 5: 359-365.
49. The Nature Conservancy. (1991). Annual report.
50. Thomas, K. (1983). Man and the natural world: A history of the modern sensibility. New York: Pantheon Books.
51. U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, (various issues). Statistical abstract of the United States. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office.
52. U.S. Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service, and U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census. (1993). 1991 National survey of fishing, hunting and wildlife-associated recreation. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.
53. U.S. Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service, and U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census. (1982). 1980 National survey of fishing, hunting and wildlife-associated recreation. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.
54. Walker, J.L., Jr. (1991). Mobilizing interest groups in America: Patrons, professions and social movements. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
55. White, L. (1967). The historical roots of our ecological crisis. Science 155: 1203-1207.
56. Wright, G.C., Erikson, R.S. and McIver, J.P. (1985). Measuring state partisanship and ideology with survey data. Journal of Politics 47: 469-489.