Disturbance theory

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Disturbance Theory is a political postulation by David Truman that states that interest groups form primarily in opposition to other interest groups so as to counteract influence in their respective political domains. Robert Salisbury would later augment the theory to state that interest groups form in the absence or increasing scarcity of resources. Salisbury also argues that the leader of such groups also holds stewardship over the future viability of the group as an "entrepreneur", in his correlative entrepreneur theory.