The scale of interest organization in democratic politics
Subtitle: data and research methods
By: edited by Darren Halpin and Grant Jordan
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230284432
Subjects: Pressure groups; Research
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Counting the voices in the heavenly chorus: pressure participants in Washington politics / Kay Schlozman; title: Enumerating populations of interest organizations: the several theoretical purposes of counting / David Lowery; title: Numbers in a niche: lessons from mapping gay and lesbian groups in the US states / Anthony J. Nownes; title: The changing contours of British representation: pluralism in practice / Grant Jordan and Jamie Greenan; title: Multiple arenas, multiple populations: counting organized interests in Scottish public policy / Darren Halpin, Graeme Baxter and Iain MacLeod; title: Tracking interest group populations in the US and UK / Grant Jordan, Frank Baumgartner, John McCarthy, Sean Bevan and Jamie Greenan; title: The usual suspects: interest group dynamics and representation in Denmark / Peter Munk Christiansen; title: Mapping the WTO interest group system: exploring density, diversity and stability over time / Marcel Hannegraaff, Jan Beyers and Caelesta Braun-Poppelaars; title: Below which radar? mapping the activities of unregulated third sector organisations in England / John Mohan; title: Counting at the local level: where to stop counting? / William Maloney and Jan van Deth.