Interest Group Politics: : Allan J. Cigler: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Interest Group Politics

Textbook

Interest Group Politics

Textbook

Description

Interest Group Politics is the only comprehensive collection of articles on interest groups and lobbying written for undergraduates. The tenth edition offers 15 new contributions on a variety of topics, including classic analyses of how groups organize and seek to affect public policy, emerging trends such as the growth of transgender groups, and fresh studies that examine how lobbying has evolved in the Trump era.

No other text or reader provides the breath of coverage or the strength of detail in exploring the world of organized interests, from their internal structure to their electoral politics to their lobbying activities. The talented scholars in this edition, like those in previous volumes, continue to seek answers to a host of questions as to how groups evolve, how they compete with similar groups, how they influence elections, and how they lobby—across a wide range of issues.

Introduction
Preface

Part One. Group Dynamics and Elections

1. Burdett Loomis, The Trump Effect: The American Civil Liberties Union Maximizes a Windfall
2. Jay Goodliffe and Kelly D. Patterson, The NRA: Seeking Stability in an Era of Policy Competitors
3. Anthony Nownes, The Formation and Survival of Transgender Rights Interest Groups in the United States
4. Paul A. Djupe, Religion in the Trump Era: The End to Religious Influence or the Beginning?
5. Jennifer Jensen, Regional Governors Associations and Understanding Interest Group Organizational Change
6. Michael Franz, The Old and the New: Political Advertising by Outside Groups on Television and Online

Part Two. Groups, Lobbying and Policy Outcomes
7. Thomas T. Holyoke and Heath Brown,Contested Framing and Feedback after Big Policy Change: How Interest Groups Compete to Shape Charter School Policies
8. Matthew Grossman, Interest Group Positions, Representation, and Policy Outcomes
9. Timothy M. LaPira and Herschel F. Thomas, How Big a Political Footprint? Interest Groups as Influence Enterprise
10. Scott H. Ainsworth and James E. Monogan, Hedging Bets: Lobbying as Insurance for Business
11. Darren Halpin, Interest Group Policy Positions and Priorities
12. Adam J. Newmark, Regulating Lobbying in the United States
13. Kellen A. Kane, Rebecca J. Kreitzer, and Emily Schilling, Interest Groups and Setting the Abortion Agenda
14. Conor McGrath, President Obama’s Regulation of Lobbying and Lobbyists: Great Expectations, Promise(s) Unfulfilled

Conclusion.
15. Anthony Nownes with Burdett Loomis, Lobbying and the Balance of Power in American Politics

About the Contributors
Index

Product details

Published	Nov 12 2019
Format	Paperback
Edition	10th
Extent	322
ISBN	9781538124635
Imprint	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Illustrations	24 tables; 29 graphs
Dimensions	9 x 6 inches
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing