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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 Lobbying in the Nineteenth Century: Tocqueville's America
Interest Groups and Lobbying in the Nineteenth Century: Tocqueville's America
When French aristocrat Alexis de Tocqueville toured the United States in the early 1830s, he marveled at the propensity of Americans to organize and form groups for an astonishingly vast array of purposes. Tocqueville celebrated this striking feature of American life in Democracy in America, penned a few years after ...
