Interest group politics / Editor Allan J. Cigler, Burdett A. Loomis

Introduction : The changing nature of interest group politics, 1. -- Group formation and membership, 35. -- Interest group recruting : Finding members and keeping them, 35. -- Corporate philanthropy in a political fishbowl : Perils and possibilities, 63. -- Taking organization seriously : The structure of interest group influence, 83. -- The washington higher education community : Moving beyond lobbying, 97. -- The political firepower of the national rifle association, 119. -- Organized group and elections, 145. -- Parties and interest group in postreform congressional elections, 145. -- Thunder on the right? religious interest group mobilization in the 1996 election, 169. -- Political action committes and campaing finance, 193. -- Interest and the policy process, 217. -- Advocates and analysts : Tinks tanks and the politicization of expertise, 235. -- Reverse lobbying : Interest group mobilization from the White House and the Hill, 255. -- Instrumental versus expresive group politics : The national endownwment for the arts, 283. -- Abortion interest : From the usual suspects to expanded coalitions, 327. -- Lobbying the public : All directional advocacy, 343. -- All in the family? Interest groups and foreing policy, 365. -- From big bird to Bill Gates : Organized interests and the emergence of hyperpolitics, 389