The survival of interest groups: evidence from Germany

Figures & data

Figure 1. The survival of interest groups in the German Bundestag.

Table 1. Results from Cox regression.

	Model 1	Model 2	Model 3
Main
Cause groups	0.381***	0.443***	0.301**
	(0.111)	(0.138)	(0.119)
Public salience	‒0.005*	‒0.010***	‒0.006***
	(0.003)	(0.003)	(0.002)
Government activity		0.000**	‒0.000
		(0.000)	(0.000)
No. of competitors		0.001**	0.001
		(0.001)	(0.001)
No. of new competitors		0.229	‒1.079
		(0.186)	(0.806)
Reunification			4.271**
			(1.891)
TVC × ln(t)
No. of competitors × ln(t)			‒0.000
			(0.000)
No. of new competitors × ln(t)			0.316
			(0.209)
Reunification × ln(t)			‒0.476
			(0.508)
N	25,666	25,666	25,666
Subjects	1,699	1,699	1,699
Failures	339	339	339
Log pseudolikelihood	‒2249	‒2242	‒2139

*** p ≤ 0.01; **p ≤ 0.05; *p ≤ 0.10; Clustered robust standard errors in parentheses.

Figure 2. The effect of public salience.

Figure 3. The effect of interest group type.