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Routledge
218 Pages
by
Routledge
218 Pages
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Routledge
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Presidential transitions offer the chance for new ideas, policies, and people to inhabit the White House. Transitions have triggered policy change for decades and eager interest groups have sought ways to capitalize on this often chaotic phase of US politics. President-Elect Barack Obama declared that lobbyists would be forbidden from serving his transition and issued stiff regulations and rules... Read more
1. The Call for the Book 2. Defining Interest Groups, Exploring Policy Theory 3. Institutional Transition Pluralism 4. Interest Group Strategy: Cataloguing Transition Tactics 5. The Obama Transition: Modeling Activity with Survey Research on Interest Group Strategy 6. Linking Strategy to Outcomes 7. Advising the New President: Content Analysis of Issue Framing and Advice 8. Assesment, Evaluation, and Future Research
Biography
Heath Brown is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and Public Affairs at Seton Hall University.
"This book is well written, thoroughly researched, and interesting. It manages both to fill a significant scholarly gap and to connect disparate literatures. It will appeal primarily to scholars of interest groups and lobbying, but it will also be of interest to scholars of the presidency and American politics more generally." - Graham G. Dodds, Concordia University"Brown provides a useful contribution that sheds light on a neglected area of study and does much to augment the limited data available for analysis." - Emily J. Charnock, University of Virginia
