Interest Group Politics

Ninth Edition

Edited by:

Allan J. Cigler - University of Kansas, USA
Burdett A. Loomis - University of Kansas, USA
Anthony J. Nownes - The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA

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Interest Groups

May 2015 | 408 pages | CQ Press

With its broad spectrum of scholarship on interest groups past and present, Interest Group Politics brings together noted political scientists to provide comprehensive coverage and cutting-edge research on the role and impact of interest groups in U.S. politics, all geared to an undergraduate audience. In the wake of the Citizens United decision and the growth of lobbying into a multi-billion dollar industry, this trusted classic provides students with a guide to the influence and reach of interest groups.

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Burdett A. Loomis, Allan J. Cigler

1. Introduction: The Changing Nature of Interest Groups Politics

Part I. Internal Politics of Organized Interests

Peter L. Francia

2. Organized Labor: Adaptive Strategies in Challenging Times

Darren R. Halpin

3. Interest Group ‘Policy Agendas’: What are They? And How Might We Study Them?

Don Haider-Markel, Steven Sylvester

4. Changing Polices/Changing Hearts and Minds: The Evolution of the LGBT Movement

Allen D. Hertzke

5. National Religious Lobbying: Dramatic Growth and Significance

Burdett A. Loomis

6. The Tea Party as an Interest: Movement? Group? Brand? Faction?

Part II. Groups, Elections, and Money

Lee Drutman

7. The Rise of Dark Money

Brian Kelleher Richter, Timothy Werner

8. Sources of Congressional Candidates’ Funds: Does Interest Group Money Dominate?

Robert G. Boatright

9. Interest Group Interests in Congressional Primaries

Part III. Lobbying

Dorie Apollonio

10. Tobacco Industry Efforts to Influence Policy: When Interest Groups Face Opposition

Timothy M. LaPira

11. Lobbying in the Shadows: How Private Interests Hide from Public Scrunity, and Why That Matters

James M. McCormick

12. Ethnic Interest Groups and American Foreign Policy: How Influential?

Anthony J. Nownes, Josh Cole

13. Interest Groups and America’s “Invisible Governments”: Patterns of Participation and Conflict in Special District Politics

Robert Healy

14. Working the Angles: The Job of a Corporate Lobbyist

Amy Melissa McKay

15. The Power of Negative Lobbying

Scott H. Ainsworth, Erik K. Godwin, R. Kenneth Godwin

16. We Have Met the Lobbyists and They Are Us: When Governments Lobby Governments

Part IV. Conclusion

Burdett A. Loomis, Anthony Nownes

17. Advocacy in an Era of Inequality

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15 new contributions, on topics including organized labor, the LGBT movement, religious lobbying, the Tea Party, the tobacco industry, the role of “dark money” in campaign funding, the profession of lobbying, and advocacy and inequality.
Each chapter is written by an expert in the field and carefully edited for clarity and cohesion by Allan J. Cigler, Burdett A. Loomis, and Anthony J. Nownes.

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