The study of interest groups and their role in political life has undergone somewhat of a
renaissance in recent years. Long standing scholarly themes such as interest groups …

As interest group scholars on both sides of the Atlantic pay greater attention to similar
research questions, the centrality of institutions to understanding advocacy becomes more …

With its broad spectrum of scholarship on interest groups past and present, Interest Group
Politics brings together noted political scientists to provide comprehensive coverage and …

This is a thematically unified survey of current and significant issues affecting interest group
politics and scholarship in the USA. Petracca has drawn together interest group scholars …

While much progress has been made in empirically mapping and analysing a variety of
interest group activities in the last decade, less attention has been devoted to conceptual …

In, Frank Baumgartner and Beth Leech characterized a series of problems in the interest
group research published between 1950 and 1995. In this article, we assess whether recent …

The study of interest group politics–that is the organisation, aggregation, articulation, and
intermediation of societal interests that seek to shape public policies–is a relatively small …

Interest Groups and Lobbying shows how political organizations and their lobbyists play a
crucial role in how policy is made in the United States. It cuts through the myths and …

Interest group activity is always affected by the political environment in which groups
operate. As a result, effective study of public interest groups must situate them in a larger …

The literature often contrasts interest groups possessing insider status and outsider groups
forced to seek influence through more indirect means. Drawing on data from a survey of all …