CHAPTER TWELVE: INTEREST GROUPS

a. Do interest groups help or hinder liberal democracy?

b. Examine the evolution of the relationship in liberal democracies between interest groups and governments.

Hague & Harrop, 2010 edn, ch.12.

S. Berger and H. Compston, Policy Concertation and Social Partnership in Western Europe
A. Binderkrantz, ‘Interest Group Strategies: Navigating Between Privileged Access and Strategies of Pressure’, Political Studies 53 (2005) 694-715.
C. Cigler and B. Loomis, Interest Group Politics
R. Hrebenar and R. Scott, Interest Group Politics in America
T. Lowi, The End of Liberalism
D. Marsh and R. Rhodes, Policy Networks in British Government
M. Olson, The Rise and Decline of Nations
M. Olson, The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Goods
J. Richardson, Pressure Groups
M. Smith, Pressure Politics
G. Wilson, Business and Politics: A Comparative Introduction
G. Wilson, Interest Groups

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