Baumgartner / Leech Basic Interests

The Importance of Groups in Politics and in Political Science
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-2248-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 248 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Baumgartner, Frank R.

Leech, Beth L.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Preface

Introduction

Ch. 1 Progress and Confusion 3

Ch. 2 Barriers to Accumulation 22

Ch. 3 The Rise and Decline of the Group Approach 44

Ch. 4 Collective Action and the New Literature on Interest Groups 64

Ch. 5 Bias and Diversity in the Interest-Group System 83

Ch. 6 The Dynamics of Bias 100

Ch. 7 Building a Literature on Lobbying, One Case Study at a Time 120

Ch. 8 Surveys of Interest-Group Activities 147

Ch. 9 Learning from Experience 168

Appendix Articles on Interest Groups Published in the American Political Science Review, 1950-1995 189

References 197

Index 217

Über Autor(innen)

Frank R. Baumgartner is Professor of Political Science at Texas A&M University. He is the author of Conflict and Rhetoric in French Policymaking and coauthor (with Bryan Jones) of Agendas and Instability in American Politics. Beth L. Leech is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at Texas A&M.