LEADER 04304nam 2200697Ia 450 001 996200261703316 005 20230912221913.0 010 $a1-4008-0044-7 010 $a1-4008-1095-7 010 $a1-282-45822-1 010 $a9786612458224 010 $a1-4008-2248-3 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400822485 035 $a(CKB)2520000000006977 035 $a(EBL)483510 035 $a(OCoLC)630535132 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000109032 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11138424 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000109032 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10045330 035 $a(PQKB)11116965 035 $a(OCoLC)51543237 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse41451 035 $a(DE-B1597)446179 035 $a(OCoLC)979749203 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400822485 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL483510 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10035789 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL245822 035 $a(FR-PaCSA)45003618 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC483510 035 $a(EXLCZ)992520000000006977 100 $a19971007d1998 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aBasic interests $ethe importance of groups in politics and in political science /$fFrank R. Baumgartner and Beth L. Leech 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton, N.J. $cPrinceton University Press$dc1998 215 $a1 online resource (245 pages) 311 $a0-691-05914-4 311 $a0-691-05915-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [197]-216) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIllustrations --$tPreface --$tIntroduction --$tChapter One. Progress and Confusion --$tChapter Two. Barriers to Accumulation --$tChapter Three. The Rise and Decline of the Group Approach --$tChapter Four. Collective Action and the New Literature on Interest Groups --$tChapter Five. Bias and Diversity in the Interest-Group System --$tChapter Six. The Dynamics of Bias --$tChapter Seven. Building a Literature on Lobbying, One Case Study at a Time --$tChapter Eight. Surveys of Interest-Group Activities --$tChapter Nine. Learning from Experience --$tAppendix. Articles on Interest Groups Published in the American Political Science Review, 1950-1995 --$tReferences --$tIndex 330 $aA 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 Beth Leech show that scholars have veered from one extreme to another not because of changes in the political system, but because of changes in political science. They review hundreds of books and articles about interest groups from the 1940's to today; examine the methodological and conceptual problems that have beset the field; and suggest research strategies to return interest-group studies to a position of greater relevance. The authors begin by explaining how the group approach to politics became dominant forty years ago in reaction to the constitutional-legal approach that preceded it. They show how it fell into decline in the 1970's as scholars ignored the impact of groups on government to focus on more quantifiable but narrower subjects, such as collective-action dilemmas and the dynamics of recruitment. As a result, despite intense research activity, we still know very little about how groups influence day-to-day governing. Baumgartner and Leech argue that scholars need to develop a more coherent set of research questions, focus on large-scale studies, and pay more attention to the context of group behavior. Their book will give new impetus and direction to a field that has been in the academic wilderness too long. 606 $aLobbying$zUnited States 606 $aPressure groups$zUnited States 615 0$aLobbying 615 0$aPressure groups 676 $a322.430973 700 $aBaumgartner$b Frank R.$f1958-$0967208 701 $aLeech$b Beth L.$f1961-$0967209 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996200261703316 996 $aBasic interests$92195720 997 $aUNISA