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Record Nr.

UNINA9910746069803321

Titolo

Interest Groups in U.S. Local Politics / / edited by Sarah Anzia

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2023

ISBN

9783031376269

3031376269

Edizione

[1st ed. 2023.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (v, 133 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

320.80973

Soggetti

America - Politics and government

Political planning

Elections

Legislation

American Politics

Public Policy

Electoral Politics

Legislative Politics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1: Interest groups in US local politics: Introduction to the special issue -- Chapter 2: Developing a pro-housing movement? Public distrust of developers, fractured coalitions, and the challenges of measuring political power -- Chapter 3: Politics, power, and precarity: how tenant organizations transform local political life -- Chapter 4: Teachers' unions and school board elections: a reassessment -- Chapter 5: Interest groups, local politics, and police unions -- Chapter 6: PACs rule everything around me: how political action committees shape elections and policy in the local context -- Chapter 7: The age of urban advocacy.

Sommario/riassunto

Interest group scholarship has so far focused mainly on national politics and has had very little to say about interest groups in American cities, counties, school districts, and special districts. Initially published as a special issue in Interest Groups & Advocacy, this volume is a step toward remedying that by examining some of the interest groups that



are commonly active in US local politics. The contributions herein discuss real estate developers, tenant organizations, teachers' unions, police unions, and local PACs-covering topics such as how they are organized, how they engage in local politics, some of the constraints on their influence, and the nuanced ways in which ideology and identities can sometimes shape what coalitions are possible in the local context. By bringing this work together in one place, in a volume devoted to research on interest groups, the hope is that this book will help to cement "interest groups in local politics" as the recognizable research focus it deserves to be. Sarah Anzia is Associate Professor of Public Policy & Political Science at University of California Berkeley, USA.