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Interest Groups in American Politics, Third Edition, is grounded by the role of information in interest group activity, a theme that runs through the book.
The Ninth Edition offers 15 new contributions on a variety of topics including organized labor, the LGBT movement, religious lobbying, the Tea Party, the tobacco industry, the role of “dark money” in campaign funding, the profession of ...
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Offers comprehensive coverage of interest group politics Considered the gold standard on interest group politics, this widely-used text analyzes interest groups within the intuitive framework of democratic theory, enabling students to ...
Interest Groups in American Society
Lyndon Johnson, quoted in Merriman Smith, A White House Memoir (New York: Norton, 1971), p. 36. 8. Providence Journal, February 13, 1977. 9. Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, April 25, 1977, p. 561. 10.