
The Organization Ecology of Interest Communities
Assessment and Agenda
Palgrave Macmillan (Publisher)
Published on 7. September 2015
Book
Hardback
XIII, 285 pages
978-1-137-51430-1 (ISBN)
Description
This volume summarizes the origins and development of the organization ecology approach to the study of interest representation and lobbying, and outlines an agenda for future research. Multiple authors from different countries and from different perspectives contribute their analysis of this research program.
Reviews / Votes
'The Organization Ecology of Interest Communities is one of the most important books on interest group systems ever written. The papers in this excellent volume represent that work's ever-expanding impact and chart new directions for population ecology research. Every student of interest groups will need to read this volume carefully.' Richard L. Hall, Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, University of Michigan, USA
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Series
Edition
1st ed. 2015
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Illustrations
XIII, 285 p.
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
494 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-137-51430-1 (9781137514301)
DOI
10.1057/9781137514318
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The Organization Ecology of Interest Communities
Assessment and Agenda
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Persons
Frank R. Baumgartner, Richard J. Richardson Distinguished Professor of Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
Joost Berkhout, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Jan Beyers, Professor of Political Science, University of Antwerp, and Director of the Antwerp Centre for Institutions and Multilevel Politics (ACIM), Belgium
Caelesta Braun, Assistant Professor, Free University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Traci Burch, Associate Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University, and Research Professor at the American Bar Foundation, USA
Virginia Gray, Robert Watson Winston Distinguished Professor of Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
Darren Halpin, Associate Professor and Reader in Policy Studies, and the Head of School of Sociology, at the Research School of Social Sciences, the Australian National University.
Marcel Hanegraaff, Post-Doctoral Researcher of Political Science, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Thomas T. Holyoke, Associate Professor of Political Science, California State University, Fresno, USA
Philip Edward Jones, Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Relations, University of Delaware, USA
Beth Leech, Professor of Political Science, Rutgers University, USA
Burdett Loomis, Professor of Politics, University of Kansas, USA
David Lowery, Bruce R. Miller and Dean D. LaVigne Professor of Political Science, Pennsylvania State University, USA
William A. Maloney, Professor of Politics and Head of the School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, Newcastle University, UK
Anthony J. Nownes, Professor of Political Science, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA
Christopher Witko, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of South Carolina, USA
Hye Young You, Assistant professor of Political Science, Vanderbilt University, USA
Kay Lehman Schlozman, J. Joseph Moakley Endowed Professor of Political Science, Boston College, USA
Kelsey Shoub, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
Sidney Verba, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor Emeritus and Research Professor of Government, Harvard University, USA
Content
List of Tables List of Figures Notes on Contributors 1.An Introduction to the Population Ecology Approach; David Lowery and Virginia Gray 2.Organizational Demography Research in the United States; Anthony J. Nownes 3.Interest Organization Demography Research in Europe; Joost Berkhout 4.Towards a Population Ecology Approach to Trans-National Advocacy? An Emerging Research Field; Jan Beyers and Marcel Hanegraaff 5.Challenges of Integrating Levels of Analysis in Interest Group Research; Thomas T. Holyoke 6.Organizational Populations: Professionalization, Maintenance and Democratic Delivery; William A. Maloney 7.Case Study Approaches to Studying Organization Survival and Adaptation; Christopher Witko 8.Lobbying as a Leveraged Act: On Resource Dependencies and Lobby Presence; Caelesta Braun 9.Louder Chorus - Same Accent: The Representation of Interests in Pressure Politics, 1981-2011; Kay Lehman Schlozman, Philip Edward Jones, Hye Young You, Traci Burch, Sidney Verba, Henry E. Brady 10.Interest Community Influence: A Neopluralist Perspective; Beth L. Leech 11.Population Dynamics and Representation; Frank R. Baumgartner and Kelsey Shoub 12.The Influence of Organization Ecology Research on Population Ecology of Interest Representation: Present Practices and Future Prospects; Darren R. Halpin 13.Beyond Metaphor: Populations and Groups, Interests, and Lobbyists; Burdett Loomis 14.The Future of Organization Ecology in Interest Representation; David Lowery, Virginia Gray and Darren R. Halpin Index