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:

xiv, 484 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Edition:

Seventh edition.

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : CQ Press, [2007]

Contents:

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

I Group Organization

2 Targeting Success: The Enduring Power of the NRA / Kelly D. Patterson, Matthew M. Singer 37

3 Politics of Tribal Recognition: Casinos, Culture, and Controversy / Michael Nelson 65

4 A More Level Playing Field or a New Mobilization of Bias? Interest Groups and Advocacy for the Disadvantaged / Dara Z. Strolovitch 86

5 Big-Money Donors to Environmental Groups: What They Give and What They Get / Anthony J. Nownes, Allan J. Cigler 108

6 Interest Organization Communities: Their Assembly and Consequences / David Lowery, Virginia Gray 130

II Groups in the Electoral Process

7 Getting the Spirit? Religious and Partisan Mobilization in the 2004 Elections / James L. Guth, Lyman A. Kellstedt, John C. Green, Corwin E. Smidt 157

8 Interest Group Money in Elections / Marian Currinder, Joanne Connor Green, M. Margaret Conway 182

9 527s: The New Bad Guys of Campaign Finance / Diana Dwyre 212

III Groups in the Policy Process

10 Nonprofit Organizations as Interest Groups: The Politics of Passivity / Jeffrey M. Berry 235

11 Is Corporate Lobbying Rational or Just a Waste of Money? / Erik K. Godwin, R. Kenneth Godwin, Scott Ainsworth 256

12 Identity Crisis: How Interest Groups Struggle to Define Themselves in Washington / Michael T. Heaney 279

13 American Interests in the Balance? Do Ethnic Groups Dominate Foreign Policy Making? / Eric M. Uslaner 301

14 What Happened to the Japanese Lobby in Washington? The Decline of the Japan Lobby and the Rise of the New China Lobby / Ronald J. Hrebenar, Valerie Ploumpis, Clive S. Thomas 322

15 Where Have All the Interest Groups Gone? An Analysis of Interest Group Participation in Presidential Nominations to the Supreme Court of the United States / Karen O'Connor, Alixandra B. Yanus, Linda Mancillas Patterson 340

16 Emerging Issues, New Organizations: Interest Groups and the Making of Nanotechnology Policy / Christopher J. Bosso, Ruben Rodrigues 366

17 The Well-informed Lobbyist: Information and Interest Group Lobbying / Rogan Kersh 389

18 Does K Street Run Through Capitol Hill? Lobbying Congress in the Republican Era / Burdett A. Loomis 412

19 Organized Interests, Political Parties, and Representation: James Madison, Tom DeLay, and the Soul of American Politics / Allan J. Cigler, Burdett A. Loomis 433.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781933116761

1933116765

OCLC:

74941251