@article{428581,
      recid = {428581},
      author = {Loomis, Burdett A., and Francia, Peter L. and Strolovitch,  Dara Z.},
      title = {Guide to interest groups and lobbying in the United States  [electronic resource] /},
      publisher = {CQ Press,},
      address = {Washington, D.C. :},
      pages = {1 online resource (xix, 490 p.) :},
      year = {2012},
      note = {Description based on print version record.},
      abstract = {Guide to Interest Groups and Lobbying in the United States  offers a thematic analysis of interest groups and lobbying  in U.S. politics and over the course of American political  history. It explores how interest groups have organized and  articulated their support for numerous issues, and how have  they grownboth in numbers and range of activitiesto become  an integral part of the U.S. political system. This  reference book presents multiple approaches to  understanding the complex and changing interest advocacy  sphere, from the foundations of interest groups during the  late 18th century to the contemporary explosive growth of  lobbying, political action committees, and new forms of  interest group cyberpolitics.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/428581},
}