The Interest Group Connection

by Herrnson, Paul S.; Shaiko, Ronald G.; Wilcox, Clyde

• ISBN13: 9781566430548
• ISBN10: 1566430542
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-11-01
• Publisher: Chatham House Pub

Summary

Organized interest groups have always played important roles in American politics, helping to connect Americans to their government. Here twenty-eight leading scholars and practitioners offer new essays and commentaries on the electoral, congressional, executive, and judicial connections between interest groups and the Washington policy-makers they seek to influence. This volume is the first to examine the impact on interest group activity of the Republican takeover of Congress and the Democratic takeover of the White House.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Part I. Introduction	3	(34)
RONALD G. SHAIKO
1. Lobbying in Washington: A Contemporary Perspective	3	(16)
CHARLS E. WALKER
2. A Four-Decade Perspective on Lobbying in Washington	19	(18)
Part II. The Electoral Connection	37	(52)
PAUL S. HERRNSON
3. Interest Groups, PACs, and Campaigns	37	(15)
CANDICE J. NELSON
4. The Money Chase: Partisanship, Committee Leadership Change, and PAC Contributions in the House of Representatives	52	(13)
STEPHEN J. WAYNE
5. Interest Groups on the Road to the White House: Traveling the Hard and Soft Routes	65	(15)
ELLEN S. MILLER
DONALD L. GOFF
Comments on the Electoral Connection	80	(9)
Part III. The Congressional Connection	89	(116)
CLYDE WILCOX
6. The Dynamics of Lobbying the Hill	89	(11)
JAMES G. GIMPEL
7. Grassroots Organizations and Equilibrium Cycles in Group Mobilization and Access	100	(16)
COLTON C. CAMPBELL
ROGER H. DAVIDSON
8. Coalition Building in Congress: The Consequences of Partisan Change	116	(21)
CHRISTINE DEGREGORIO
9. Assets and Access: Linking Lobbyists and Lawmakers in Congress	137	(17)
JAMES A. THURBER
10. Interest Groups and the Congressional Budget Process: Lobbying in the Era of Deficit Politics	154	(20)
JOHN R. WRIGHT
11. Tobacco Industry PACs and the Nation's Health: A Second Opinion	174	(22)
JACK BONNER
HOWARD MARLOWE
Comments on the Congressional Connection	196	(9)
Part IV. The Executive Connection	205	(62)
ERIC M. USLANER
12. Lobbying the President and the Bureaucracy	205	(8)
WILLIAM T. GORMLEY JR.
13. Interest Group Interventions in the Administrative Process: Conspirators and Co-Conspirators	213	(11)
GARY J. ANDRES
14. Lobbying for the President: Influencing Congress from the White House	224	(14)
ERNEST J. WILSON III
15. Interest Groups and Foreign Policymaking: A View from the White House	238	(20)
MICHAEL J. MCSHANE
RICHARD D. OTIS JR.
Comments on the Executive Connection	258	(9)
Part V. The Judicial Connection	267	(60)
KAREN O'CONNOR
16. Lobbying the Justices or Lobbying for Justice?	267	(22)
GREGG IVERS
17. Please God, Save This Honorable Court: The Emergence of the Conservative Religious Bar	289	(13)
WAYNE V. MCINTOSH
CYNTHIA L. CATES
18. Interest Groups and the Courts: Free Speech for Corporations	302	(16)
ALAN MORRISON
ROBERT A. KATZMANN
Comments on the Judicial Connection	318	(9)
Part VI. Conclusion	327	(10)
PAUL S. HERRNSON
CLYDE WILCOX
RONALD G. SHAIKO
19. Interest Groups at the Dawn of a New Millennium	327	(10)
References	337	(24)
Index	361	(13)
About the Contributors	374