Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Legislators
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
CQ Power Players 2001
Author: CQ's Power Players 2001
Author: David RappCQ Weekly
Author: Statement of Disbursements of the House
Author: United States. Congress. HousePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1460
Book Description
Covers receipts and expenditures of appropriations and other funds.
Developing Interests
Author: McGee YoungPublisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700617043
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Organized interests are perennially under fire for distorting public policies. Critics charge that they privilege the demands of favored constituencies at the expense of the broader public interest. Yet despite the importance of interest groups in the political process, little systematic research has been conducted into the development of political identities and lobbying capacities among major advocacy organizations. How does a group come to represent a set of interests? Are the identities and policy priorities of advocacy organizations stable over time, or do they evolve? What causes such evolution to occur, and what tensions arise as a consequence? This book explores the development of interest-group politics in the United States through the defining lens of four key advocacy associations in two major and highly contested policy domains, the small business and environmental lobbies. Through close examination of the National Small Business Association, National Federation of Independent Business, Sierra Club, and National Resources Defense Council, McGee Young addresses questions of how groups come to represent particular interests, which groups succeed and which fail, and how groups shape political institutions. Young explains how political opportunities shape entrepreneurial efforts to form organizations, how formative events shape advocacy strategies and tactics, and how an interest group's identity arises from entrepreneurial "opportunity seekers" interacting with the broader ebb and flow of politics. He shows that received understandings of what constitutes a small business or environmental interest only gradually solidified as policy conflicts forced group leaders to stake out firm principles-such as when pivotal battles in the 1950s over Western dams intersected with a longstanding membership tradition to transform the Sierra Club, or when the NFIB struggled to balance its conservatism with its hostility toward big business, to the dismay of its political allies. Developing Interests bridges the gap between traditional interest-group research and new research in American political development. It marks the first extensive study of small business interest groups in more than 40 years, while its organizational perspective provides a fresh look at environmental politics, and it features the first organizational histories of the NFIB, the NSBA, and the NRDC. With its illuminating case studies of small business lobbies and environmental groups over time, it provides readers with new insights into both the theoretical and empirical significance of interest-group development.
Politics in America 2002
Author: Quarterly Congressional, IncPublisher: C Q Press Library Reference
ISBN: 9781568026558
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1224
Book Description
Updated with complete information for the 107th Congress, this volume features profiles on every member of Congress. Each profile examines the member's performance in Congress and major accomplishments.
Guide to the Presidency SET
Author: Michael NelsonPublisher: CQ Press
ISBN: 9780872893641
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Guide to the Presidency is the leading reference source on the persons who have occupied the White House and on the institution of the presidency itself. Readers turn to this guide for its vast array of factual information about the institution and the presidents, as well as for its analytical chapters that explain the structure and operations of the office and the president's relationship to co-equal branches of government, Congress and the Supreme Court. This new edition is updated to include: A new chapter on presidential power Coverage of the expansion of presidential power under President George W. Bush
CQ Women in Power
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Legislators
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Brief descriptions of the lives, accomplishments, and goals of the women in the 108th Congress prominent in the field of politics.
CQ Guide to Current American Government
Author: CQ PressPublisher: C Q Press Library Reference
ISBN: 9781933116266
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Confrontation and Compromise
Author: Jason D. MycoffPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780742540606
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
"Classroom tested in the authors' teaching of courses on Congress and the presidency, the case studies in Confrontation and Compromise offer students an engaging and informative look at the critical role that leadership plays in achieving legislative success."--BOOK JACKET.