We examine scholarship on the role and influence of advocacy organizations in the US
political process. We identify common theoretical questions in the disconnected literatures …

A review of the past decade's research on American associations reveals significant growth
in empirical findings across three levels of analysis: the individual member, the organization …

When Agendas and Instability in American Politics appeared fifteen years ago, offering a
profoundly original account of how policy issues rise and fall on the national agenda, the …

Now in a thoroughly revised Fifth Edition, An Introduction to the Policy Process provides
students at all levels with an accessible, readable, and affordable introduction to the field of …

Early in the 1950s my parents tired of summer holidays mostly spent on chilly wind-swept
beaches and embarked, with hire car, tents, and four young children, on what was, in the …

Describes the development of interest groups in the USA mainly from the 1960s to the
1990s. Using the results of two national surveys of all membership associations operating in …

Public opinion polls are everywhere. Journalists report their results without hesitation, and
political activists of all kinds spend millions of dollars on them, fueling the widespread …

Considered the gold standard on interest group politics, this widely-used text analyzes
interest groups within the intuitive framework of democratic theory, enabling readers to …

The swift development of the Internet has inspired two sorts of claims that large-scale
transformations in the structure of political influence in the US are under way: the populist …

advancement of the regulatory state. They were fighting a proposed consumer protection
agency, trying to stop labor-law reform, and responding to a general sense that the values of …