"Interest Group Politics" presents a broad spectrum of scholarship on interest groups past and present. In a time of partisan parity, when control of Congress is always within reach of the minority party at the next election, interest groups have every incentive to keep the pressure on. And they do. But the imbalance of influence that tilts toward moneyed interests is one of the cornerstones of the political system. What does this mean for equal representation? In nineteen chapters, noted political scientists explore the role of money, technology, grassroots lobbying, issue advocacy advertising, and much more in interest group influence. Students will learn how the National Rifle Association has become one of the most effective lobbying groups in America, what opportunities the openness of the American political process has offered ethnic groups both within and outside the United States, how the role of interest groups in elections has changed (including 527's), what effect religious organizations had in the 2004 elections, and how interest groups affect Supreme Court nominations.
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Allan J. Cigler is Chancellor's Club Teaching Professor of Political Science at the University of Kansas. He received his doctorate from Indiana University. His research and writing focus on parties and interest groups, particularly on the relationship between the two mediating institutions.
Burdett A. Loomis is professor of political science at the University of Kansas. A former American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow and recipient of a Kemper Teaching Award, he has written extensively on legislatures, political careers, interest groups, and policymaking.
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religious contacting, eleven lobbyists, individual interest organizations, conventional nonprofits, following survey item, interest group universe, legislative subsidy, interest organization communities, issue niche, party soft money, interest group contacts, conditional party government, many organized interests, issue advocacy advertising, disadvantaged subgroups, interest group scholars, lobbying behavior, lobby registrations, swift boat veterans, tribal recognition, lobbying community, religious contacts, large donors, mobilization events, group proliferation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Supreme Court, York Times, Washington Post, Capitol Hill, African American Protestants, John Kerry, Social Security, Virginia Gray, White House, House of Representatives, African Americans, American Rifleman, Arab Americans, Associated Press, David Lowery, Federal Election Commission, American Indian, National Rifle Association, Asian Americans, Ann Arbor, Christian Coalition, Grover Norquist, Second Amendment, Cuban Americans New!
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religious contacting, eleven lobbyists, individual interest organizations, conventional nonprofits, following survey item, interest group universe, legislative subsidy, interest organization communities, issue niche, party soft money, interest group contacts, conditional party government, many organized interests, issue advocacy advertising, disadvantaged subgroups, interest group scholars, lobbying behavior, lobby registrations, swift boat veterans, tribal recognition, lobbying community, religious contacts, large donors, mobilization events, group proliferation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Supreme Court, York Times, Washington Post, Capitol Hill, African American Protestants, John Kerry, Social Security, Virginia Gray, White House, House of Representatives, African Americans, American Rifleman, Arab Americans, Associated Press, David Lowery, Federal Election Commission, American Indian, National Rifle Association, Asian Americans, Ann Arbor, Christian Coalition, Grover Norquist, Second Amendment, Cuban Americans New!
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