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Life in a Niche: Mortality Anxiety Among Organized Interests in the American States

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA

David Lowery

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL

We extend recent research using a population ecology framework to understand the structure of interest communities by examining how niche resources and population density influence the survival prospects of inter ests organization. We indirectly assess how resources and density bear on survival by examining mortality anxiety-assessments of the likelihood that interest organization will soon face an existence-threatening crisis. Several hypotheses on mortality anxiety are extracted from the population ecology research program and tested with survey data on interest communities in six states.

Political Research Quarterly, Vol. 50, No. 1, 25-47 (1997)
DOI: 10.1177/106591299705000102


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