Guide to Interest Groups and Lobbying in the United States

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext Guide to Interest Groups and Lobbying in the United States offers a thematic analysis of interest groups and lobbying in American politics and over the course of American political history. It explores how interest groups have organized and articulated their support for numerous issues! and have they grown - both in numbers and range of activities - to become an integral part of the U.S. political system. Beginning with the foundations of interest groups during the late 19th Century Gilded Age! to the contemporary explosive growth of lobbying! Political Action Committees! and new forms of interest group cyberpolitics! readers are provided with multiple approaches to understanding the complex and changing interest advocacy sphere . Zusammenfassung Offering a thematic analysis of interest groups and lobbying in American politics and over the course of American political history! this title takes the reader from the foundation of interest groups to contemporary cyberpolitics and more.

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• Authors: Burdett A. Loomis, Burdett A. Francia Loomis
• Assisted by: Peter Francia (Editor), Peter L. Francia (Editor), Burdett Loomis (Editor), Burdett A Loomis (Editor), Burdett A. Loomis (Editor), Burdett A. A. Loomis (Editor), Dara Z Strolovitch (Editor), Dara Z. Strolovitch (Editor), Dara Z. Z. Strolovitch (Editor), Strolovitch Dara Z. (Editor)
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.08.2011
• EAN: 9781604264579
• ISBN: 978-1-60426-457-9
• No. of pages: 512
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy, United States of America, USA, Pressure groups, protest movements and non-violent action, Pressure groups & lobbying