Basic Interests : : The Importance of Groups in Politics and in Political Science / / Beth L. Leech, Frank R. Baumgartner.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• VerfasserIn: Baumgartner, Frank R.,; Leech, Beth L.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [1998]; ©1998
• Year of Publication: 1998
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (248 p.) :; 9 tables

A generation ago, scholars saw interest groups as the single most important element in the American political system. Today, political scientists are more likely to see groups as a marginal influence compared to institutions such as Congress, the presidency, and the judiciary. Frank Baumgartner and...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Illustrations
• Preface
• Introduction
• Chapter One. Progress and Confusion
• Chapter Two. Barriers to Accumulation
• Chapter Three. The Rise and Decline of the Group Approach
• Chapter Four. Collective Action and the New Literature on Interest Groups
• Chapter Five. Bias and Diversity in the Interest-Group System
• Chapter Six. The Dynamics of Bias
• Chapter Seven. Building a Literature on Lobbying, One Case Study at a Time
• Chapter Eight. Surveys of Interest-Group Activities
• Chapter Nine. Learning from Experience
• Appendix. Articles on Interest Groups Published in the American Political Science Review, 1950-1995
• References
• Index