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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 Federal Campaigns before the Federal Election Campaign Act
Interest Groups and Federal Campaigns before the Federal Election Campaign Act
Extensive interest group involvement in federal-level campaigns and elections, with some notable exceptions, is of relatively recent vintage. Early in the nation's development, nationally oriented political associations were nonexistent. Interests were latent, and organizations representing them at the federal level were not needed. ...
