Interest Groups, Lobbying, and Participation in America

By - Goldstein, Kenneth M.

Floor - Floor 1

Published - Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1999

ISBN 10 - 052163962X

ISBN 13 - 9780521639620

Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.

Subject - Lobbying

Shelf No - 15

Call Number - 324.4097 GOL

Physical Description - xii, 158 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes - Includes Bibliographic reference and Index.

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Understanding why individuals participate in politics demands attention to more than just individual attributes and attitudes. Similarly, understanding how interest groups influence policy-making demands attention to more than just the financial donations and direct activities of Washington-based lobbyists. 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, Kenneth Goldstein develops and tests a theory of how tactical choices in a grass-roots campaign are made. In doing so, he demonstrates that outside lobbying activities deserve a place in any correctly-specified model of interest group influence, political participation, or legislative decision-making.

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