Political Lobbying & Interest Groups

By analysing their intraorganisational structures, this book explains how groups prepare to become active in the European Union and why we observe contact, conflict and cooperation of interest groups and other political actors in the European arena...

Interest Groups in American Politics, Second Edition, is grounded by the role of information in interest group activity, a theme that runs through the entire book. This much anticipated revision of Nownes’s text retains a student friendly tone and thoroughly updates the references to interest group ..

Interest Groups in American Politics, Second Edition, is grounded by the role of information in interest group activity, a theme that runs through the entire book. This much anticipated revision of Nownes’s text retains a student friendly tone and thoroughly updates the references to interest group ..

Using the historic Minnesota state government shutdown of 2011 as a backdrop, Interfaith Advocacy describes the work of the Joint Religious Legislative Coalition, an interfaith advocacy group that brings together leaders from Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, and Muslim traditions to advocate on behalf ..

Presenting an innovative analysis of interest group lobbying in the European Union by drawing on an unprecedented and comprehensive large-N research design, Legislative Lobbying in Context studies the effect of policy-related and institutional factors on interest group mobilization, strategies and i..

Presenting an innovative analysis of interest group lobbying in the European Union by drawing on an unprecedented and comprehensive large-N research design, Legislative Lobbying in Context studies the effect of policy-related and institutional factors on interest group mobilization, strategies and i..

Lobbying Success in the European Union effectively bridges research from interest mediation and framing studies and offers a new model about how to measure stakeholders’ success. This new and pragmatic approach to study lobbying success can be used and adapted to any policy analysis and issue...

This book offers an unprecedented window into the everyday relationships between bureaucrats and interest representatives...

Reflecting cutting edge scholarship but written for undergraduates, New Directions in Interest Group Politics will help students think critically about influence in the American political system. There is no shortage of fear about "the special interests" in American political debate, but reliable in..

Reflecting cutting edge scholarship but written for undergraduates, New Directions in Interest Group Politics will help students think critically about influence in the American political system. There is no shortage of fear about "the special interests" in American political debate, but reliable in..

This interdisciplinary volume applies theories from Media, Cultural, and Literary Studies to investigate how undocumented immigrant youth in the United States have claimed a public voice by publishing their video narratives on YouTube...

First published in 1904, in the wake of Joseph Chamberlain's Tariff Reform, this volume assesses the implications of Free Trade for industries such as Shipping, Agriculture and Engineering...