caa a22 4500 475800702 CHVBK 20180406123736.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20000601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1023/A:1006686729513 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1023/A:1006686729513 Ainsworth Scott Department of Political Science, University of Georgia, Baldwin Hall, 30602-1615, Athens, GA aut Modeling Political Efficacy and Interest Group Membership [Elektronische Daten] [Scott Ainsworth] Traditionally, political efficacy is measured at the individual level and studied as an individual level attribute in isolation from macro level events. In many studies, political efficacy is viewed as largely static, affected primarily by levels of income and education. If, however, an individual's feeling of efficacy is partly conditioned on macro level occurrences or expected macro level occurrences, then individual efficacy cannot be studied in isolation from the macro level context. In this article, I create a game theoretic, micro level foundation for macro level interest group behavior. I use a simple participation game to model a form of individual level political efficacy and detail the empirical implications of the hypothesized individual level behavior for the aggregate levels of group membership. The results suggest that empirical studies of the effects of political efficacy on collective efforts are susceptible to sampling and measurement problems. Plenum Publishing Corporation, 2000 Political Behavior Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 22/2(2000-06-01), 89-108 0190-9320 22:2<89 2000 22 11109 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1006686729513 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1006686729513 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Ainsworth Scott Department of Political Science, University of Georgia, Baldwin Hall, 30602-1615, Athens, GA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Political Behavior Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 22/2(2000-06-01), 89-108 0190-9320 22:2<89 2000 22 11109 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer