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Routledge
421 Pages
by
Routledge
421 Pages
by
Routledge
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Have special interests taken over the country, derailing the public agenda and threatening representative democracy? Or is it possible that the maturation of interest group politics will yield a more pluralistic and balanced society? Interest groups have changed over the past two decades, and so have the ways in which we study them. This volume charts the changes in interest group theory,... Read more
Preface -- Introduction -- Approaches to Interest Groups -- The Rediscovery of Interest Group Politics -- A Deliberative Theory of Interest Representation -- Interest Groups and the Policymaking Process: Sources of Countervailing Power in America -- American Interest Groups in Comparative Perspective -- The Organization of Interests -- Interest Group Membership and Organization: Multiple Theories -- Triangles, Networks, and Hollow Cores: The Complex Geometry of Washington Interest Representation -- Changing Patterns of Interest Group Activity: A Regional Perspective -- The Political Mobilization of Business -- Political Institutions and Interest Groups -- Organized Interests and the Nation's Capitol -- Interest Mobilization and the Presidency -- Representing the Public Interest: Consumer Groups and the Presidency -- Conservative Interest Group Litigation in the Reagan Era and Beyond -- Interest Group Activity and Influence -- Social Movements as Interest Groups: The Case of the Women's Movement -- Money, Technology, and Political Interests: The Direct Marketing of Politics -- The Rise and Fall of Special Interest Politics -- Looking Ahead -- The Future of an Interest Group Society -- Appendix
Biography
Mark P. Petracca is associate professor of political science at the University of California at Irvine.
