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Democracy and Interest Groups: Enhancing Participation?

✍ Scribed by Grant Jordan, William A. Maloney (auth.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 2007
Tongue: English
Leaves: 242
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Looking for Democracy: The Democratic Contribution of Membership-based Interest Groups....Pages 1-37
The Collective Action Paradox: What Incentives Induce Participation? Olson Defied?....Pages 38-69
Making Interests: Creating Members?....Pages 70-85
The Business of Building Group Membership....Pages 86-112
Understanding Joining — And Not Joining....Pages 113-144
The Social Capital and Democratic Potential of Campaigning Organizations....Pages 145-170
Reinforcing Polyarchy: What Groups Do for Democracy?....Pages 171-192
Back Matter....Pages 193-233

✦ Subjects

Political Science; Comparative Politics; Sociology, general; Democracy; Political Communication

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