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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.
Public Interest Groups
Public Interest Groups
The organizations active in Washington span an astonishing range. They encompass organizations based on how people earn a living, how they spend their leisure, and how they define themselves in religious or ethnic terms. They range from organizations that have billions in assets to others that live from hand to mouth and from those with liberal views to those with conservative views. Within this diverse ...
