Interest group politics / edited by Allan J. Cigler, Burdett A. Loomis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cigler, Allan J., 1943-

Loomis, Burdett A., 1945-2021.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pressure groups--United States.

Pressure groups.

United States.

Physical Description:

xii, 410 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Edition:

Sixth edition.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : CQ Press, [2002]

Contents:

1. Introduction: The Changing Nature of Interest Group Politics / Burdett A. Loomis, Allan J. Cigler 1

I. Group Organization

2. Groups, Social Capital, and Democratic Orientations / Allan J. Cigler, Mark Joslyn 37

3. The National Rifle Association in the Face of the Clinton Challenge / Kelly D. Patterson, Matthew M. Singer 55

4. Collective Entrepreneurialism and Breast Cancer Advocacy / Maureen Casamayou 79

5. Just Another Tool? How Environmental Groups Use the Internet / Christopher J. Bosso, Michael Thomas Collins 95

II. Groups in the Electoral Process

6. Interest Group Money in Elections / M. Margaret Conway, Joanne Connor Green, Marian Currinder 117

7. Campaigning outside the Law: Interest Group Issue Advocacy / Diana Dwyre 141

8. A Distant Thunder? Religious Mobilization in the 2000 Elections / James L. Guth, Lyman A. Kellstedt, John C. Green, Corwin E. Smidt 161

9. Interests, Lobbying, and the U.S. Congress: Past as Prologue / Burdett A. Loomis 185

III. Groups in the Policymaking Process

10. What Corporations Really Want from Government: The Public Provision of Private Goods / R. Kenneth Godwin, Barry J. Seldon 205

11. Corporate Lobbyists as Political Actors: A View from the Field / Rogan Kersh 225

12. Lobbying the Press: "Talk to the People Who Talk to America" / Clyde Brown, Herbert Waltzer 249

13. Organized Interests and Issue Definition in Policy Debates / Beth L. Leech, Frank R. Baumgartner, Jeffrey M. Berry, Marie Hojnacki, David C. Kimball 275

14. High-Tech Learns to Play the Washington Game: The Political Education of Bill Gates and Other Nerds / David M. Hart 293

15. Exchange Theory and the Institutional Impetus for Interest Group Formation / William P. Browne 313

IV. Assessments

16. Interest Groups and Gridlock / Jeffrey M. Berry 333

17. Cracks in the Armor? Interest Groups and Foreign Policy / Eric M. Uslaner 355

18. Always Involved, Rarely Central: Organized Interests in American Politics / Allan J. Cigler, Burdett A. Loomis 381.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1568026749

OCLC:

48870911