After the Revolution: Pacs, Lobbies, and the Republican Congress

by Biersack, Robert; Herrnson, Paul S.; Wilcox, Clyde

• ISBN13: 9780205269136
• ISBN10: 0205269133
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-01-01
• Publisher: Longman

Summary

This edited collection of original, commissioned essays tells the important story of how interest groups and PACs from business, labor, and other activist organizations have worked with the changing rules governing lobbying and the sea change provided by the Republican Revolution in 1994 to try to achieve their particular goals. Containing a wealth of information that simply is not available anywhere else, After the Revolution will serve a variety of purposes in different courses where students need to understand how Congress and interest groups have interacted, how the current system works, and how certain changes might affect these relationships in the future.

Table of Contents

Preface	vi
Introduction	1	(17)
Robert Biersack
Paul S. Herrnson
From Wall Street to Main Street: The National Federation of Independent Business and the New Republican Majority	18	(18)
Ronald G. Shaiko
Marc A. Wallace
BIPAC: Working to Keep a Probusiness Congress	36	(11)
Candice J. Nelson
Robert Biersack
The Doctors' Lobby	47	(19)
Michael Gusmano
Political Firepower: The National Rifle Association	66	(11)
Kelly D. Patterson
Building to Win, Building to Last: AFL-CIO COPE Takes on the Republican Congress	77	(17)
Robin Gerber
Still Bringing Home the Bacon: The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union	94	(8)
Marni Ezra
The Sierra Club Political Committee	102	(16)
David Cantor
League of Conservation Voters	118	(16)
Philip A. Mundo
NARAL PAC: Battling for Women's Reproductive Rights	134	(10)
Sue Thomas
The Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund Comes of Age: Reflections on the 1996 Elections	144	(8)
Craig A. Rimmerman
AT&T PAC: The Perils of Pragmatism	152	(18)
Robert E. Mutch
The Realtors Political Action Committee: Covering All Contingencies	170	(14)
Anne H. Bedlington
Wish List: Pro-Choice Women in the Republican Congress	184	(8)
Mark J. Rozell
Revolutionary Change or More of the Same? PACS, Lobbies, and the Republican Congress	192	(6)
Paul S. Herrnson
Clyde Wilcox
References	198	(9)
Index	207