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With its broad spectrum of scholarship on interest groups past and present, Interest Group Politics brings together noted political scientists to provide comprehensive coverage and cutting-edge research on the role and impact of interest groups in U.S. politics, all geared to an undergraduate audien...

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Corporate Author: Sage Publications
Other Authors: Cigler, Allan J., 1943- (Editor), Loomis, Burdett A., 1945-2021 (Editor), Nownes, Anthony J. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Los Angeles : Sage/CQ Press, [2016]
Edition:Ninth edition.
Subjects:
Pressure groups > United States.
Pressure groups.
United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction: The Changing Nature of Interest Groups Politics
  • Burdett A. Loomis, Allan J. Cigler<br />Part I. Internal Politics of Organized Interests<br />2. Organized Labor: Adaptive Strategies in Challenging Times
  • Peter L. Francia<br />3. Interest Group 'Policy Agendas': What are They? And How Might We Study Them?
  • Darren R. Halpin<br />4. Changing Polices/Changing Hearts and Minds: The Evolution of the LGBT Movement
  • Don Haider-Markel, Steven Sylvester<br />5. National Religious Lobbying: Dramatic Growth and Significance
  • Allen D. Hertzke<br />6. The Tea Party as an Interest: Movement? Group? Brand? Faction?
  • Burdett A. Loomis<br />Part II. Groups, Elections, and Money<br />7. The Rise of Dark Money
  • Lee Drutman<br />8. Sources of Congressional Candidates' Funds: Does Interest Group Money Dominate?
  • Brian Kelleher Richter, Timothy Werner<br />9. Interest Group Interests in Congressional Primaries
  • Robert G. Boatright<br />Part III. Lobbying<br />10. Tobacco Industry Efforts to Influence Policy: When Interest Groups Face Opposition
  • Dorie Apollonio<br />11. Lobbying in the Shadows: How Private Interests Hide from Public Scrunity, and Why That Matters
  • Timothy M. LaPira<br />12. Ethnic Interest Groups and American Foreign Policy: How Influential?
  • James M. McCormick<br />13. Interest Groups and America's "Invisible Governments": Patterns of Participation and Conflict in Special District Politics
  • Anthony J. Nownes, Josh Cole<br />14. Working the Angles: The Job of a Corporate Lobbyist
  • Robert Healy<br />15. The Power of Negative Lobbying
  • Amy Melissa McKay <br />16. We Have Met the Lobbyists and They Are Us: When Governments Lobby Governments
  • Scott H. Ainsworth, Erik K. Godwin, R. Kenneth Godwin<br />Part IV. Conclusion<br />17. Advocacy in an Era of Inequality
  • Burdett A. Loomis, Anthony Nownes<br />