The Organization Ecology of Interest Communities [electronic resource] : Assessment and Agenda /
Halpin, Darren.editor.
Lowery, David.editor.
Gray, Virginia.editor.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: -- 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.
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.
Democracy.
Comparative politics.
Political theory.
Political communication.
Public policy.
Political science.
Democracy.
Comparative Politics.
Political Theory.
Political Communication.
Public Policy.
Political Science.