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The Organization Ecology of Interest Communities

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Editors:
  1. David Lowery

    1. Pennsylvania State University, USA

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  2. Darren Halpin

    1. Australian National University, Australia

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  3. Virginia Gray

    1. University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, USA

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Part of the book series: Interest Groups, Advocacy and Democracy Series (IGAD)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. An Introduction to the Population Ecology Approach

    • David Lowery, Virginia Gray
    Pages 1-15

  3. Organizational Demography Research in the United States

    • Anthony J. Nownes
    Pages 17-36

  4. Interest Organization Demography Research in Europe

    • Joost Berkhout
    Pages 37-59

  5. Toward a Population Ecology Approach to Transnational Advocacy? An Emerging Research Field

    • Jan Beyers, Marcel Hanegraaff
    Pages 61-78

  6. Challenges of Integrating Levels of Analysis in Interest Group Research

    • Thomas T. Holyoke
    Pages 79-97

  7. Organizational Populations: Professionalization, Maintenance and Democratic Delivery

    • William A. Maloney
    Pages 99-116

  8. Case Study Approaches to Studying Organization Survival and Adaptation

    • Christopher Witko
    Pages 117-135

  9. Lobbying as a Leveraged Act: On Resource Dependencies and Lobby Presence

    • Caelesta Braun
    Pages 137-155

  10. 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
    Pages 157-181

  11. Interest Community Influence: A Neopluralist Perspective

    • Beth L. Leech
    Pages 183-201

  12. Population Dynamics and Representation

    • Frank R. Baumgartner, Kelsey Shoub
    Pages 203-224

  13. The Influence of Organization Ecology Research on Population Ecology of Interest Representation: Present Practices and Future Prospects

    • Darren R. Halpin
    Pages 225-247

  14. Beyond Metaphor: Populations and Groups, Interests, and Lobbyists

    • Burdett Loomis
    Pages 249-261

  15. The Future of Organization Ecology in Interest Representation

    • David Lowery, Darren R. Halpin, Virginia Gray
    Pages 263-274

  16. Back Matter

    Pages 275-285
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About this book

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.

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'The Organization Ecology of Interest Communities is one of the most important books on interest group systems ever written. The papers in this excellent volume represent that work's ever-expanding impact and chart new directions for population ecology research. Every student of interest groups will need to read this volume carefully.' Richard L. Hall, Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, University of Michigan, USA

Editors and Affiliations

  • Pennsylvania State University, USA

    David Lowery

  • Australian National University, Australia

    Darren Halpin

  • University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, USA

    Virginia Gray

About the editors

Frank R. Baumgartner, Richard J. Richardson Distinguished Professor of Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA Joost Berkhout, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Jan Beyers, Professor of Political Science, University of Antwerp, and Director of the Antwerp Centre for Institutions and Multilevel Politics (ACIM), Belgium Caelesta Braun, Assistant Professor, Free University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Traci Burch, Associate Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University, and Research Professor at the American Bar Foundation, USA Virginia Gray, Robert Watson Winston Distinguished Professor of Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA Darren Halpin, Associate Professor and Reader in Policy Studies, and the Head of School of Sociology, at the Research School of Social Sciences, the Australian National University. Marcel Hanegraaff, Post-Doctoral Researcher of Political Science, University of Antwerp, Belgium Thomas T. Holyoke, Associate Professor of Political Science, California State University, Fresno, USA Philip Edward Jones, Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Relations, University of Delaware, USA Beth Leech, Professor of Political Science, Rutgers University, USA Burdett Loomis, Professor of Politics, University of Kansas, USA David Lowery, Bruce R. Miller and Dean D. LaVigne Professor of Political Science, Pennsylvania State University, USA William A. Maloney, Professor of Politics and Head of the School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, Newcastle University, UK Anthony J. Nownes, Professor of Political Science, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA Christopher Witko, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of South Carolina, USA Hye Young You, Assistant professor of Political Science, Vanderbilt University, USA Kay Lehman Schlozman, J. Joseph Moakley Endowed Professor of Political Science, Boston College, USA Kelsey Shoub, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA Sidney Verba, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor Emeritus and Research Professor of Government, Harvard University, USA

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