The classics of interest group behavior /

The classics of interest group behavior /

"An edited collection of articles on interest group behavior, this reader includes a combination of classic and contemporary readings with topics including group formation and mobilization, group behavior, and influence. An introductory chapter to the book includes a general overview and discus...

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Main Author: Alexander, Robert M., 1972-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Belmont, CA : Thomson/Wadsworth, c2006.
Subjects:
Associations, institutions, etc. > United States > Political activity.
Representative government and representation > United States.
Lobbying > United States.
Pressure groups > United States.
Pressure groups.
Online Access:Table of contents only
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • Part I. Group Formation and Pluralism. 2. Federalist No. 10 / James Madison
  • 3. Political Associations in the United States / Alexis de Tocqueville
  • 4. Group Activities / Arthur Bentley
  • 5. The Alleged Mischiefs of Faction / David Truman
  • 6. The Nature of the Problem / Robert Dahl
  • 7. The Contagiousness of Conflict / E.E. Schattschneider
  • 8. The Higher Circles / C. Wright Mills
  • Part II. Group Mobilization and Structure. 9 From The Logic of Collective Action / Mancur Olson
  • 10. Incentive Systems: A Theory of Organizations / Peter Clark and James Q. Wilson
  • 11. An Exchange Theory of Interest Groups / Robert Salisbury
  • 12. The Origins and Maintenance of Interest Groups in America / Jack Walker
  • 13. The Three Modes of Political Mobilization / Jack Walker
  • 14. Interest Representation: The Dominance of Institutions / Robert Salisbury
  • 15. More of the Same: Washington Pressure Group Activity in a Decade of Change / Kay Schlozman and John Tierney
  • Part III. Group Influence. 16. Toward juridical Democracy / Theodore J. Lowi
  • 17. From Demosclerosis / Jonathan Rauch
  • 18. Issue Networks and the Executive Establishment / Hugh Heclo
  • 19. Organized Interests and Their Issue Niches / William Browne
  • 20. PACs, Contributions, and Roll Calls: An Organizational Perspective / John R. Wright
  • 21. Legislators and Interest Groups: How Unorganized Interests Get Represented / Arthur T. Denzau and Michael C. Munger
  • 22. Buying Time: Moneyed Interests and the Mobilization of Bias in Congressional Committees / Richard L. Hall and Frank Wayman
  • 23. Structure and Uncertainty in Private Interest Representation / John P. Heinz, Edward O. Laumann, Robert L. Nelson, and Robert H. Salisbury.

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