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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787247803321

Titolo

Interest group politics in the Southern States / / edited by Ronald J. Hrebenar and Clive S. Thomas

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa ; ; London : , : University of Alabama Press, , [1992]

©1992

ISBN

0-8173-8904-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (431 p.)

Disciplina

322.4/3/0975

Soggetti

Pressure groups - Southern States

Southern States Politics and government 1951-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [389]-401) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; 1. Understanding Interest Group Activity in Southern State Politics - Clive S. Thomas; Part I: The Peripheral South; 2. Kentucky: Adapting to the Independent Legislature - Malcolm E. Jewell and Penny M. Miller; 3. Tennessee: New Challenges for the Farm, Liquor, and Big Business Lobbies - David H. Folz and Patricia K. Freeman ; 4. Virginia: A New Look for the ""Political Museum Piece"" - John T. Whelan; 5. North Carolina: Interest Groups in a State in Transition - Jack D. Fleer; 6. Florida: The Changing Patterns of Power - Anne E. Kelley and Ella L. Taylor

7. Texas: The Transformation from Personal to Informational Lobbying - Keith E. Hamm and Charles W. Wiggins8. Arkansas: The Politics of Inequality - Arthur English and John J. Carroll; Part II: The Deep South; 9. South Carolina: The Rise of the New South - Robert E. Botsch; 10. Georgia: Business as Usual - Eleanor C. Main, Lee Epstein, and Debra L. Elovich; 11. Alabama: Personalities and Factionalism - David L. Martin; 12. Mississippi: An Expanding Array of Interests - Thomas H. Handy; 13. Louisiana: The Final Throes of Freewheeling Ways? - Charles J. Barrilleaux and Charles D. Hadley

Part III: Conclusion14. Change, Transition, and Growth in Southern Interest Group Politics - Ronald J. Hrebenar; Notes; Bibliography; Contributors; Index



Sommario/riassunto

<DIV><P>This is the first volume comprehensively to explore the dynamics of political interest groups in the twelve southern states - the types of group, lobbyists and lobbying tactics, state regulation of lobbying activity, and the power they exert in the individual states. The authors bring a new dimension to the study of southern politics, which traditionally has emphasized electoral politics and the politics of race, and their work underscores the pivotal, and at times controlling, role played by interest groups. </P></DIV>