Guide to interest groups and lobbying in the United States [electronic resource] / Burdett A. Loomis, editor ; Peter L. Francia & Dara Z. Strolovitch, associate editors.
2012
JK1118 .G85 2012eb
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Title
Guide to interest groups and lobbying in the United States [electronic resource] / Burdett A. Loomis, editor ; Peter L. Francia & Dara Z. Strolovitch, associate editors.
ISBN
9781608717743 (electronic bk.)
9781604264579
9781604264579
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Washington, D.C. : CQ Press, c2012.
Language
English
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1 online resource (xix, 490 p.) : ill.
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JK1118 .G85 2012eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
324/.40973
Summary
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.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Interest groups from the framing to the twentieth century
Theoretical approaches to interest groups and lobbying
Interest groups and the growth of government
Interest groups by sector and type
Lobbyists and lobbying: tactics, techniques, and regulation
Interest groups, campaigns, and elections, and money
Groups and lobbying beyond the beltway.
Interest groups from the framing to the twentieth century
Theoretical approaches to interest groups and lobbying
Interest groups and the growth of government
Interest groups by sector and type
Lobbyists and lobbying: tactics, techniques, and regulation
Interest groups, campaigns, and elections, and money
Groups and lobbying beyond the beltway.