During the 2008 election season, politicians from both sides of the aisle promised to rid
government of lobbyists' undue influence. For the authors of Lobbying and Policy Change …

Challenging the conventional wisdom that Americans are less engaged than ever in
national life and the democratic process, Talking Together paints the most comprehensive …

This brief text identifies the issues, resources, actors, and institutions involved in public
policy making and traces the dynamics of the policymaking process, including the triggering …

It has been a little more than ten years now since global governance assumed a prominent
spot on the international agenda, spurred by the euphoria at the end of the Cold War and …

We explore the possibility that the US political system can usefully be characterized as
oligarchic. Using a material-based definition drawn from Aristotle, we argue that oligarchy is …

Over the past fifteen years, associations throughout the US have organized citizens around
issues of equality and social justice, often through local churches. But in contrast to …

Answers to environmental issues are not black and white. Debates around policy are often
among those with fundamentally different values, and the way that problems and solutions …

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 book radically revises established knowledge in comparative welfare state studies and
introduces a new perspective on how religion shaped modern social protection systems …

" The Golden Age of Fraternity was a unique time in American history. In the forty years
between the Civil War and the onset of World War I, more than half of all Americans …