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“How Interest Groups Influence Public Opinion: Arguments Matter More Than The Sources”
Summary
“How interest groups influence public opinion: arguments matter more than the sources”
is a research article written by Andreas Dür for the European Journal of Political Research. Dür
elaborates on the influential role of interest groups on the American public and seeks to prove
how they maintain this role. The purpose of the article is to come to a conclusion about the
reasons why interest groups are so influential in changing the public opinions of Americans. The
central question of the article is if arguments or sources are more effective in influencing public
opinion, specifically when being utilized by interest groups in the U.S.
The author used an extremely effective method to reach his conclusion and answer the
central question of the article, which asks whether the arguments or source cues of interest
groups influence public opinion more. Throughout the research article, Dür presents three
hypotheses in order to explain how interest groups wield such an influence over public opinion.
Dür presents these hypotheses to reach a conclusion about if the arguments of interest groups are
the power behind their influence, or if they are influential because they are merely viewed as
credible and relevant sources. The author tests these hypotheses using information from other
case studies and surveys in order to assess how interest groups influence public opinion.
To continue on Dür’s method of analyzing the power of interest groups, Dür first seeks to
prove that they wield this influence in the first place. Dür presents outside research studies to
prove that interest groups are influential on public opinion in a plethora of ways. Next, Dür
presents his three hypotheses, which ask whether arguments or reputation as sources make
interest groups influential. Dür pres...