Interest Groups, Lobbying, and Participation in America / Edition 1

by Kenneth M. Goldstein

Overview

More than individual attributes and attitudes motivate individuals to participate in politics and more goes into interest group influence than financial donations and direct activity. To answer fundamental questions about what determines when and why people participate in politics and how organized interests go about trying to influence legislative decision-making, we must understand how and why political leaders recruit which members of the public into the political arena. Looking from the bottom up with survey data and from the top down with data from interest group interviews, Goldstein develops and tests a theory of how tactical choices in a grass roots campaign are made.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521639620
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	08/13/1999
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	172
Product dimensions:	6.22(w) x 9.06(h) x 0.55(d)

Table of Contents

1. Introduction; 2. Patterns and puzzles in participation and lobbying; 3. The political logic of political decisions; 4. Explaining lobbying decisions; 5. Lobbying decisions and the health care reform battle; 6. Patterns of recruitment and participation in the mass public; 7. Conclusion.

Editorial Reviews

"This detailed study of the interest group and citzen poltics of health care reform is both informationally revealing and theoretically and methodologically sophisticated—two ends difficult to match." Choice

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