Interest group politics. ([2016])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Allan J. Cigler, Burdett A. Loomis, Anthony J. Nownes.
• Editors: Cigler, Allan J, 1943-; Loomis, Burdett A, 1945-; Nownes, Anthony J
• Contents: 1. Introduction: The Changing Nature of Interest Groups Politics -- Burdett A. Loomis, Allan J. Cigler; Part I. Internal Politics of Organized Interests; 2. Organized Labor: Adaptive Strategies in Challenging Times -- Peter L. Francia; 3. Interest Group 'Policy Agendas': What are They? And How Might We Study Them? -- Darren R. Halpin; 4. Changing Polices/Changing Hearts and Minds: The Evolution of the LGBT Movement -- Don Haider-Markel, Steven Sylvester; 5. National Religious Lobbying: Dramatic Growth and Significance -- Allen D. Hertzke; 6. The Tea Party as an Interest: Movement? Group? Brand? Faction? -- Burdett A. Loomis; Part II. Groups, Elections, and Money; 7. The Rise of Dark Money -- Lee Drutman; 8. Sources of Congressional Candidates' Funds: Does Interest Group Money Dominate? -- Brian Kelleher Richter, Timothy Werner; 9. Interest Group Interests in Congressional Primaries -- Robert G. Boatright; Part III. Lobbying; 10. Tobacco Industry Efforts to Influence Policy: When Interest Groups Face Opposition -- Dorie Apollonio; 11. Lobbying in the Shadows: How Private Interests Hide from Public Scrunity, and Why That Matters -- Timothy M. LaPira; 12. Ethnic Interest Groups and American Foreign Policy: How Influential? -- James M. McCormick; 13. Interest Groups and America's "Invisible Governments": Patterns of Participation and Conflict in Special District Politics -- Anthony J. Nownes, Josh Cole; 14. Working the Angles: The Job of a Corporate Lobbyist -- Robert Healy; 15. The Power of Negative Lobbying -- Amy Melissa McKay; 16. We Have Met the Lobbyists and They Are Us: When Governments Lobby Governments -- Scott H. Ainsworth, Erik K. Godwin, R. Kenneth Godwin; Part IV. Conclusion; 17. Advocacy in an Era of Inequality -- Burdett A. Loomis, Anthony Nownes;
• Edition: Ninth edition
• Publisher Details: Los Angeles : Sage/CQ Press
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 322.430973; Pressure groups -- United States; Pressure groups; United States
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781506316840; 1506316840; 9781483391793; 1483391795
• Related ISBNs: 9781483374819
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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