First World Interest Groups: A Comparative Perspective
This first comprehensive appraisal of interest groups in Western democracies in thirty years a systematic comparison of interest group activities and their impact on public policymaking in twelve post-industrial First World nations. Using a conceptual framework, well-known experts provide an assessment of these interest group systems, identify similarities and differences, and point to current trends and future directions. This up-to-date overview and analysis is intended for students and specialists dealing with interest group behavior, comparative government and political institutions, and also with each country that is surveyed.

This landmark comparative study of interest groups balances pluralist, corporatist, and to a lesser extent neo-Marxist approaches, synthesizing current know-how about interest groups in Australia, Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United States. Each country chapter describes the factors that affect interest group make-up, their operating techniques, and their influence, and chapter demonstrates how the interest group system impacts on the public policymaking process and how well the system is explained by the conceptual framework it is studies. This study is viewed in terms of an American model, a British model with its derivations, models in continental European democracies, and in newer democracies. A concluding chapter offers further insights, and a selected bibliography is helpful in pointing as it does to important sources for further study.

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First World Interest Groups: A Comparative Perspective
This first comprehensive appraisal of interest groups in Western democracies in thirty years a systematic comparison of interest group activities and their impact on public policymaking in twelve post-industrial First World nations. Using a conceptual framework, well-known experts provide an assessment of these interest group systems, identify similarities and differences, and point to current trends and future directions. This up-to-date overview and analysis is intended for students and specialists dealing with interest group behavior, comparative government and political institutions, and also with each country that is surveyed.

This landmark comparative study of interest groups balances pluralist, corporatist, and to a lesser extent neo-Marxist approaches, synthesizing current know-how about interest groups in Australia, Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United States. Each country chapter describes the factors that affect interest group make-up, their operating techniques, and their influence, and chapter demonstrates how the interest group system impacts on the public policymaking process and how well the system is explained by the conceptual framework it is studies. This study is viewed in terms of an American model, a British model with its derivations, models in continental European democracies, and in newer democracies. A concluding chapter offers further insights, and a selected bibliography is helpful in pointing as it does to important sources for further study.

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First World Interest Groups: A Comparative Perspective

First World Interest Groups: A Comparative Perspective

by Clive S. Thomas
First World Interest Groups: A Comparative Perspective

First World Interest Groups: A Comparative Perspective

by Clive S. Thomas

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This first comprehensive appraisal of interest groups in Western democracies in thirty years a systematic comparison of interest group activities and their impact on public policymaking in twelve post-industrial First World nations. Using a conceptual framework, well-known experts provide an assessment of these interest group systems, identify similarities and differences, and point to current trends and future directions. This up-to-date overview and analysis is intended for students and specialists dealing with interest group behavior, comparative government and political institutions, and also with each country that is surveyed.

This landmark comparative study of interest groups balances pluralist, corporatist, and to a lesser extent neo-Marxist approaches, synthesizing current know-how about interest groups in Australia, Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United States. Each country chapter describes the factors that affect interest group make-up, their operating techniques, and their influence, and chapter demonstrates how the interest group system impacts on the public policymaking process and how well the system is explained by the conceptual framework it is studies. This study is viewed in terms of an American model, a British model with its derivations, models in continental European democracies, and in newer democracies. A concluding chapter offers further insights, and a selected bibliography is helpful in pointing as it does to important sources for further study.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780313273889
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 04/30/1993
Series: Contributions in Political Science , #32
Pages: 288
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.69(d)
Lexile: 1380L (what's this?)

About the Author

CLIVE S. THOMAS, Professor of Political Science, University of Alaska at Juneau, has written on interest groups at length. His most recent books include Politics and Public Policy in the Contemporary American West (1991), Interest Groups Politcs in the Northeastern States (1993), Interest Groups Politics in the Southern States (1992) and Interest Group Politics in the American West (1987).

Table of Contents

Preface
Understanding and Comparing Interest Groups in Western Democracies by Clive S. Thomas
The American Interest Group System: Typical Model or Aberration? by Clive S. Thomas
Government and Groups in Britain: Changing Styles by J.J. Richardson
The Mirror of the State: Canada's Interest Group System by A. Paul Pross
Australia: Interest Groups in the Shadow of Strong Political Parties by Trevor Matthews and John Warhurst
New Zealand: Capturing the State? by Jack Vowles
France: Group Politics in a Strong State by Frank L. Wilson
Italy: The Fragmentation of Power and Its Consequences by Raphael Zariski
Sweden: Interest Groups in Transition and Crisis by Michele Micheletti
Switzerland: Democratic Corporatism in a Consociational Society by Harmon Zeigler
West Germany and the New Germany: Centralization, Expanding Pluralism and New Challenges by Klaus von Beyme
Israel: Interest Group Pluralism Constrained by Asher Arian
Japan: Associational Politics in a Group Oriented Society by Ronald J. Hrebenar and Akira Nakamura
Interest Groups in Western Democracies: Contemporary Characteristics and Future Directions by Clive S. Thomas
References
Selected Bibliography
Index

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