Guide to interest groups and lobbying in the United States [electronic resource] / Burdett A. Loomis, editor ; Peter L. Francia & Dara Z. Strolovitch, associate editors.

9781608717743 (electronic bk.)
9781604264579

Washington, D.C. : CQ Press, c2012.

English

1 online resource (xix, 490 p.) : ill.

JK1118 .G85 2012eb

324/.40973

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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