Interest Group Politics

✍ Scribed by Allan J. Cigler; Burdett A. Loomis; Anthony J. Nownes

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 458
• Edition: 10
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Title
Copyright
Contents
Preface
About the Author
1 Introduction: The Changing Nature of Interest Group Politics
Part I Group Dynamics and Elections
2 The Trump Effect: The American Civil Liberties Union Maximizes a Windfall
3 The National Rifle Association: Seeking Stability in an Era of Policy Competitors
4 The Formation and Survival of Transgender Rights Interest Groups in the United States
5 Religion in the Trump Era: The End to Religious Influence or the Beginning?
6 Regional Governors Associations and Understanding Interest Group Organizational Change
7 The Old and the New: Political Advertising by Outside Groups on Television and Online
Part II Groups, Lobbying, and Policy Outcomes
8 Contested Framing and Feedback after Big Policy Changes: How Interest Groups Compete to Shape State Charter School Policies
9 Interest Group Positions, Representation, and Policy Outcomes
10 How Big a Political Footprint? Interest Groups as Influence Enterprise
11 Hedging Bets: Lobbying as Insurance for Business
12 Interest Group Policy Positions and Priorities
13 Regulating Lobbying in the United States
14 Whose Opinion Matters? The Role of Elite Actors and Interest Groups on Setting the Abortion Agenda
15 President Obama’s Regulation of Lobbying and Lobbyists: Great Expectations, Promise(s) Unfulfilled
16 Lobbying and the Balance of Power in American Politics
Index