The organization ecology of interest communities : assessment and agenda / edited by David Lowery, Pennsylvania State University, USA, Darren Halpin, Australian National University, Australia, Virginia Gray, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, USA.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lowery, David, 1952- editor.

Halpin, Darren, editor.

Gray, Virginia, 1945- editor.

Series:

Interest groups, advocacy and democracy series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pressure groups.

Organizational behavior.

Lobbying.

Representative government and representation.

Physical Description:

xiii, 285 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Summary:

"The organization ecology approach to the study of interest representation and lobbying is now almost two decades old, and a substantial body of theoretical and empirical work in both the United States and Europe has developed using this approach. Critically assessing this body of work, this collection summarises the origins and development of this research program, grounding it more firmly in the larger literature on organization ecology. It provides critical assessments of this literature from those working outside of its theoretical and empirical confines to respond to those critics and to outline an agenda for research for the future using the organization ecology approach to interest representation. The contributions to the book provide a review of the research program for those using organization ecology to study interest representation, outlines how it contributes to the larger body of work on both interest representation and organization ecology, and encourages future research on interest representation from a community-level perspective. "-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note:

List of Tables

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

1.An Introduction to the Population Ecology Approach; David Lowery and Virginia Gray

2.Organizational Demography Research in the United States; Anthony J. Nownes

3.Interest Organization Demography Research in Europe; Joost Berkhout

4.Towards a Population Ecology Approach to Trans-National Advocacy? An Emerging Research Field; Jan Beyers and Marcel Hanegraaff

5.Challenges of Integrating Levels of Analysis in Interest Group Research; Thomas T. Holyoke

6.Organizational Populations: Professionalization, Maintenance and Democratic Delivery; William A. Maloney

7.Case Study Approaches to Studying Organization Survival and Adaptation; Christopher Witko

8.Lobbying as a Leveraged Act: On Resource Dependencies and Lobby Presence; Caelesta Braun

9.Louder Chorus

Same Accent: The Representation of Interests in Pressure Politics, 1981-2011; Kay Lehman Schlozman, Philip Edward Jones, Hye Young You, Traci Burch, Sidney Verba, Henry E. Brady

10.Interest Community Influence: A Neopluralist Perspective; Beth L. Leech

11.Population Dynamics and Representation; Frank R. Baumgartner and Kelsey Shoub

12.The Influence of Organization Ecology Research on Population Ecology of Interest Representation: Present Practices and Future Prospects; Darren R. Halpin

13.Beyond Metaphor: Populations and Groups, Interests, and Lobbyists; Burdett Loomis

14.The Future of Organization Ecology in Interest Representation; David Lowery, Virginia Gray and Darren R. Halpin

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137514301

1137514302

OCLC:

917131604