This review identifies empirical facts about lobbying that are generally agreed upon in the
literature. It then discusses challenges to empirical research in lobbying and provides …

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 …

The rise of mass incarceration in the United States is one of the most critical outcomes of the
last half-century. Incarceration Nation offers the most compelling explanation of this outcome …

Institutional theory plays a significant role in contemporary political science. As in the
previous editions, the new fourth edition provides an overview of the major institutional …

On any given day, policymakers are required to address a multitude of problems and make
decisions about a variety of issues, from the economy and education to health care and …

Most analysts of corporations and industries adopt the focal perspective of a single
prototypical organization. Many analysts also study corporations primarily in terms of their …

How do a few Third World conflicts become international causes célèbres, while most
remain isolated and unknown? Why, for instance, has there been so much recent attention …

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 …

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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 …