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Guide to Interest Groups and Lobbying in the United States offers a thematic analysis of interest groups and lobbying in American politics over the course of American political history. It explores how interest groups have organized and articulated their support for numerous issues, and how they have they grown – both in numbers and range of activities – to become an integral part of the U.S. political system. Beginning with the foundations of interest groups during the late 19th-century Gilded Age, to the contemporary explosive growth of lobbying, Political Action Committees, and new forms of interest group cyberpolitics, readers are provided with multiple approaches to understanding the complex and changing interest advocacy sphere. This authoritative work will find an audience not only with students and scholars, but also with policy advocates.
Interest Groups and the Executive Branch
Interest Groups and the Executive Branch
When most people think about interest groups and the federal government, they probably conjure up images of lobbyists plying their trade in the ornate vestibules of Capitol Hill, in the public and private meeting rooms of committees and subcommittees, in the personal offices of members of Congress, and over culinary fare and libations at campaign fund-raising events. But because ...
