What are the challenges facing public interest groups as a result of their transformation from the small, grassroots groups of the 1960s into the large, professionalized, multi-billion dollar industry of the '90s? How might public interest groups meet these challenges as they move into the next century? Focusing on national environmental organizations, including Sierra Club, National Wildlife Federation, The Wilderness Society, and Environmental Defense Fund, Voices and Echoes for the Environment demonstrates how the demands of organizational maintenance encroach on the goal of effective policy influence.
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An insightful analysis of the 1990's mainstream environmental movement viewed as organizations and businesses.
(Chice )Focusing on the Environmental Defense Fund and Environmental Action,... Voices and Echoes for the Environment examines the implications, especially for relations between leaders and rank and file, of the massive growth in membership and budgets since the 1960s... On the evidence of [this] book, the future for scholarship about the human dialogue with the rest of nature in the United States looks increasingly bright green.
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Shaiko has written the definitive work on environmental lobbies. His analysis of environmental groups as organizations is particularly incisive; he understands that these lobbies are businesses operating in a competitive marketplace. Voices and Echoes for the Environment is a must-read for anyone who follows environmental policy or interest group politics.
(Jeffrey M. Berry, Tufts University, author of The New Liberalism: The Rising Power of Citizen Groups )
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When consumer activist and public interest entrepreneur Ralph Nader first arrived on the Washington political scene more than three decades ago, his vision of public interest activism was distinctly social in nature. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
five environmental organizations, public interest sector, public interest marketplace, public interest representation, public interest leaders, specific policy content, national environmental movement, national public interest organizations, national environmental organizations, interest group communications, membership motivations, general policy issues, public interest movement, contemporary environmental movement, organizational maintenance, specific policy issues, membership recruitment, wilderness issues, other environmental organizations, environmental action, leadership turnover, environmental leaders, grassroots lobbying, organizational budgets, organizational data Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Sierra Club, Environmental Action, National Wildlife Federation, Environmental Defense Fund, United States, National Audubon Society, Common Cause, New York, Nature Conservancy, Leadership-Membership Connections, Earth Day, Carl Pope, Defenders of Wildlife, League of Conservation Voters, Natural Resources Defense Council, Van Putten, World Wildlife Fund, Internal Revenue Service, Ralph Nader, Wilderness Report, Capitol Hill, Dirty Dozen, Error Chi-Square, William Turnage, American Association of Retired Persons New!
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When consumer activist and public interest entrepreneur Ralph Nader first arrived on the Washington political scene more than three decades ago, his vision of public interest activism was distinctly social in nature. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
five environmental organizations, public interest sector, public interest marketplace, public interest representation, public interest leaders, specific policy content, national environmental movement, national public interest organizations, national environmental organizations, interest group communications, membership motivations, general policy issues, public interest movement, contemporary environmental movement, organizational maintenance, specific policy issues, membership recruitment, wilderness issues, other environmental organizations, environmental action, leadership turnover, environmental leaders, grassroots lobbying, organizational budgets, organizational data Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Sierra Club, Environmental Action, National Wildlife Federation, Environmental Defense Fund, United States, National Audubon Society, Common Cause, New York, Nature Conservancy, Leadership-Membership Connections, Earth Day, Carl Pope, Defenders of Wildlife, League of Conservation Voters, Natural Resources Defense Council, Van Putten, World Wildlife Fund, Internal Revenue Service, Ralph Nader, Wilderness Report, Capitol Hill, Dirty Dozen, Error Chi-Square, William Turnage, American Association of Retired Persons New!
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- Interest Group Politics (Interest Group Politics, 5th ed) by Allan J. Cigler on 19 pages
- Lobbying for the People: The Political Behavior of Public Interest Groups by Jeffrey M. Berry on 7 pages
- Linking Citizens to Government: Interest Group Politics at Common Cause by Lawrence S. Rothenberg on 5 pages
- Collective Decision Making: Applications from Public Choice Theory (RFF Press) by Professor Clifford S. Russell on 4 pages
- American Conservation Movement: John Muir And His Legacy by Stephen Fox on 4 pages
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- Information and American Democracy: Technology in the Evolution of Political Power (Communication, Society and Politics) by Bruce Bimber on 6 pages
- Environmental Politics in Japan, Germany, and the United States by Miranda A. Schreurs on page 24, page 32, and Back Matter
- A Voice for Nonprofits by Jeffrey M. Berry in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Politics of Air Pollution: Urban Growth, Ecological Modernization, and Symbolic Inclusion (Suny Series in Global Environmental Policy) by George A. Gonzalez in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Building the Next Ark: How NGOs Work to Protect Biodiversity by Michael M. Gunter Jr. in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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