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Interest Group Society
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Jeffrey M Berry
The "gold standard" on interest group politics has been updated for the first time in over a decade. With the help of a new co-author and premier scholar - Clyde Wilcox of Georgetown University - this long awaited revision offers up-to-date coverage on the explosion of business lobbyists, the closer relationship between parties and interest ...
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Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life
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Robert B Reich
One of the nations most valued voices on politics, business, and the economy--the bestselling author of "Locked in the Cabinet" and "The Work of Nations"--discusses the clash between capitalism and democracy, in this timely, impassioned, and highly important book.
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Arrogant Capital: Washington, Wall Street, and the Frustration of American Politics
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Kevin P Phillips
Everyone knows that Washington is completely out of touch with the rest of the country. Now Kevin Phillips, whose bestselling books have prophesied the major watersheds of American party politics, tells us why. Washington - mired in bureaucracy, captured by the money power of Wall Street, and dominated by 90,000 lobbyists, 60,000 lawyers, and the ...
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Activists Beyond Borders: Advocacy Networks in International Politics
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Margaret E Keck, Kathryn Sikkink
"A masterful combination of emerging theory and empirical comparison of one of the most intriguing areas of transnational politics. Keck and Sikkink access a broad range of theory from social movements, international relations, and comparative politics research to glean from a wealth of their own research findings solid and thought-provoking ...
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Interest Group Politics
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Allan J Cigler (Editor), Burdett A Loomis (Editor)
A new edition of the classic collection of essays on organize and how interests seek to affect election results and public policies. The new edition of this best-selling reader features 18 original essays -- nearly all of them new to this edition -- by top scholars in the field to present multiple, up-to-date perspectives on the formation, inner ...
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War on the Middle Class: How the Government, Big Business, and Special Interest Groups Are Waging War on the American Dream and How to Fight Back
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Lou Dobbs
Offering solutions as well as commentary, prominent CNN host and commentator Lou Dobbs unleashes his manifesto on the vanishing American dream.
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Unexpected Power: Conflict and Change Among Transnational Activists
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Shareen Hertel
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Identity in Democracy
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Amy Gutmann
Written by one of America's leading political thinkers, this is a book about the good, the bad, and the ugly of identity politics. Amy Gutmann rises above the raging polemics that often characterize discussions of identity groups and offers a fair-minded assessment of the role they play in democracies. She addresses fundamental questions of ...
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Interest Groups and Congress: Lobbying, Contributions and Influence
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John R Wright
Re-issued as part of the "Longman Classics in Political Science" series, Wright's authoritative text on interest groups in the U.S. features a new Foreword, by Bruce Oppenheimer of Vanderbilt University that explores the text's enduring contributions to the discipline. Wright's renowned text surveys the history, organization, aims and processes of ...
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Trust Betrayed
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Dale Van Atta
Known as the organization that gives "great deals" to seniors through various discounts, the American Association of Retired Persons has another side which Dale Van Atta says works to the detriment of taxpayers, especially AARP members. In this book, he exposes the hidden agendas that will make AARP members think twice.
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Politics and Public Policy
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Carl E Van Horn
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Government's End
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Jon Rauch
An earlier edition of this extraordinarily prescient, elegantly written book created a sensation among Washington media insiders when it was published more than five years ago under the title Demosclerosis. In it, Jonathan Rauch, a former correspondent for The Economist and a columnist for National Journal, showed with startling clarity the ...
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American Business and Political Power: Public Opinion, Elections, and Democracy
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Mark A Smith
Most people believe that large corporations wield enormous political power when they lobby for policies as a cohesive bloc. With this work, the author sets conventional wisdom on its head. He states that business loses in legislative battles unless it has public backing.
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Undermining Science: Suppression and Distortion in the Bush Administration
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Seth Shulman
This vitally important expose shows how the Bush administration has systematically misled Americans on a wide range of scientific issues affecting public health, foreign policy, and the environment by ignoring, suppressing, manipulating, or even distorting scientific research. It is the first book to focus exclusively on how this explosive issue ...
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Interest Group Politics in America
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Ronald J Hrebenar
Interest-group lobbying is a controversial activity in American politics and this book provides a study of group power. This edition includes expanded coverage of the changing dynamics of power politics in America; new media venues and grassroots organizing; and the perennial issue of reform.
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Destroying Democracy: How Government Funds Partisan Politics
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James T Bennett
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Junk Science: How Politicians, Corporations, and Other Hucksters Betray Us
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Dan Agin
Dan Agin, Ph.D., argues that we will pay a heavy price for the follies of groups that consciously warp the public's understanding of science to maintain riches and power. In an entertaining but frank tone, Agin exposes the data faking, reality ignoring, fear-mongering, and outright lying that contribute to intentionally manufactured public ...
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Demosclerosis:: The Silent Killer of American Government
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Jonathan Rauch
A prominent Washington journalist exposes the inherent flaw in American democracy that is crippling government's effectiveness: it's not that the government can't get things done--it's that it can't get things undone. An indispensable guide to how Washington really works--or doesn't.
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What Every American Should Know about Who's Really Running America
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Melissa Rossi
Most of us know the big players politically in the United States. But everwonder who's pulling their strings? Who the movers and shakers are around the globe? In sharp, witty prose, What Every American Should Know About Who's Really Running the World spells out exactly who to watch and what they've done (and are still doing). A timely follow-up to ...
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Now you know
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Michael Frayn
"One of theatre's subtlest, most sophisticated minds" (The Times) Now You Know: "Frayn's light but serious, marvellous play, about official and unofficial secrets, about idle curiosity and investigative purpose" (Observer)
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The Populist Paradox: Interest Group Influence and the Promise of Direct Legislation
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Elisabeth R Gerber
Do small but wealthy interest groups influence referendums, ballot initiatives, and other forms of direct legislation at the expense of the broader public interest? Many observers argue that they do, often lamenting that direct legislation has, paradoxically, been captured by the very same wealthy interests whose power it was designed to curb. ...
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Money for Nothing: Politicians, Rent Extraction, and Political Extortion
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Fred S McChesney
The increased power of lobbyists in Washington and the excesses of campaign contributions and other favors would seem to indicate a government corrupted. But as Fred McChesney shows, payments to politicians are often made not for political favors, but to avoid political disfavor (i.e., as part of a system of political extortion or "rent ...
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Parties, Interest Groups, and Political Campaigns
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Matthew Burbank, Ronald J Hrebenar, Robert C Benedict
Just in time for the coming elections, this book shows how political parties, interest groups, and elections have become totally interdependent in the era of candidate-centered politics, issue advocacy organizations, and media-driven campaigns. With up-to-date data through the mid-term elections of 2006, this book looks ahead to 2008 in ...
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For the Common Good?: American Civic Life and the Golden Age of Fraternity
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Jason Kaufman
The Golden Age of Fraternity was a unique time in American History. "Jinners"--and from 1870-1910 more than half of all Americans participated in clubs, fraternities, militias, and mutual benefit societies--helped create a booming associational life in America between the Civil and First World Wars. Today this period is held up as a model for a ...
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Advice and Consent: The Politics of Consultation in Japan
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Frank J Schwartz
If the postwar era has witnessed a pluralizing trend in Japan, that is not to say that many diverse, fluctuating groups compete equally in the political marketplace. Instead, small sets of well-organized, narrowly-focused interest groups typically join specific bureaucratic agencies, groups of politicians, and individual experts to dominate ...
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