Political Science 4233

Interest Groups in US Politics

Articles from Interest Group Politics (Cigler/Loomis) integrated into The Interest Group Society (Berry/Wilcox)

The Interest Group Society (Berry/Wilcox)             

Chapter 1 Madison’s Dilemma 

Curing the Mischiefs of Faction

                             Interest Groups and Their Functions

                             Pluralism 

                             Interest Groups and Civil Society

                                    C/L Ch. 1, Introduction: The Changing Nature of Interest Group Politics

Chapter 2 The Advocacy Explosion                                                       

                             The Interest Group Spiral                                                   

                             The Rise of Citizen Groups

                             Business Fights Back

                             A Labor-Liberal Alliance 

                                    C/L Ch. 2, Groups, Social Capital, and Democratic Orientations

                                    C/L Ch. 3, The National Rifle Association in the Face of the Clinton Challenge

                                    C/L Ch. 4, Collective Entrepreneurialism and Breast Cancer Advocacy       

Chapter 3    Mobilization and Organization                                           

                             Competing Theories                                                           

                             Supply of Benefits

                             Marketing Interest Groups: Direct Mail and Internet Fundraising

                             Maintaining the Organization

                             Who Governs

                             Making Decisions

                                    C/L Ch. 13, Organized Interest and Issue Definition in Policy Debates

Chapter 4      The Party Connection                                                          

                             The Advantages of Interest Groups

                             Working Together

                             Keeping Parties Straight and True

                             Financial Support

                                    C/L Ch. 16, Interest Groups and Gridlock 

Chapter 5      Interest Groups in Campaigns                                            

                             Nonfinancial Support                                                         

                             Interest Group Money in Campaigns

                                    C/L Ch. 6, Interest Group Money in Elections

                                    C/L Ch. 7, Campaigning outside the Law: Interest Group Issue Advocacy

                                    C/L Ch., 8 A Distant Thunder? Religious Mobilization in the 2000 Elections

Chapter 6      Lobbyists                                                                               

                             A Day in the Life of a Lobbyist

                             Effective Lobbying

                             Lobbying as a Career

                             Lobbyist for Hire

Chapter 7      Public Opinion and Grassroots Lobbying                          

                             Direct Citizen Lobbying

                             Lobbying the Public

                             Demonstrations and Protests

                                    C/L Ch. 5, Just Another Tool? How Environmental Groups Use the Internet

                                    C/L Ch. 12, Lobbying the Press: “Talk to the People Who Talk to America”

Chapter 8      Washington Lobbying                                                          

                             Congress

                             Executive Branch

                             The Courts

                             Strategic Decision Making

                                    C/L Ch. 9, Interests, Lobbying, and the U.S. Congress: Past as Prologue

C/L Ch. 10, What Corporations Really Want from Government: The Public Provision of Private Goods

                                    C/L Ch. 11, Corporate Lobbyists as Political Actors: A View from the Field

Chapter 9      The Rise of Issue Networks and Coalitions                        

                             Coalitions: Everyday Politics

                             From Subgovernments to Issue Networks 

                             The Qualities of Issue Networks

                             Continuity and Change in Issue Networks

                                    C/L Ch. 15, Exchange Theory and the Institutional Impetus for Interest Group Formation

                                    C/L Ch. 16, Interest Groups and Gridlock

                                    C/L Ch. 17, Cracks in the Armor? Interest Groups and Foreign Policy

Chapter 10    Bias and Representation                                                      

                             Corporate Wealth and Political Advocacy                         

                             A Special Relationship                                                       

                             Beyond Business

                             Reform

C/L Ch. 14, High-Tech Learns to Play the Washington Game: The Political Education of Bill Gates and Other Nerds

                                    C/L Ch. 18, Always Involved, Rarely Central: Organized Interest in American Politics