This article revisits questions raised by the late Jack Walker in his landmark study of group
organization and maintenance and applies them to public interest groups. Data from 62 …

Public interest groups in the US are branching out into multiple levels of policymaking.
Where an interest group not long ago might have concentrated its efforts on swaying votes …

DURING the past decade, advocacy organizations commonly known as" public interest
groups" have become increasingly prominent in American society and politics. These …

Public interest groups are a small percentage of the universe of all interest groups, yet they
play a critical representative role in American democracy (Schlozman and Tierney 1986) …

It has been more than ten years since the publication of Jack L. Walker's seminal article “The
Organization and Maintenance of Interest Groups in America”(1983). This brief essay …

Utilizing data from a survey of 60 national public interest group founders, this paper
addresses two related questions:(a) What factors explain the (relatively) recent proliferation …

This article compares the strength, history, and characteristics of public interest groups in the
United States and France. French and American public interest groups differ dramatically in …

Interest groups form an important part of the development of political and social systems.
This book goes beyond current literature in examining the survival and 'careers' of such …

The political science literature on interest groups, particularly since Olson (1965), normally
focuses on individual motivations to join groups or the incentives offered by groups to entice …

Rather than striving to measure the influence of groups in the policy-making process this
article concentrates instead on the ways in which interest groups are created and the means …