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Subject(s)

• Common Cause (U.S.) [Browse]
• Public interest groups—United States—Case studies [Browse]
• Lobbying—United States—Case studies [Browse]
• Pressure groups—United States [Browse]
• Lobbying—United States [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Case studies [Browse]

Series

Chatham House series on change in American politics [More in this series]

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Action note

Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)

Contents

• Common cause: a concise description : Common cause issues ; The emphasis on structure and process issues
• The civic reformers : Common cause and the reform tradition ; Mistakes of the progressives ; Why common cause began in 1970
• The members : Demographic characteristics ; Attitudes toward the federal government ; The logic of the collective action
• The structure of the organization : Common cause as a technical organization ; Insider-outsider lobbying ; State organizations ; Finances ; Relationships with the press ; The policy research group ; The national staff ; Headquarters volunteers
• Who controls common cause : The political exchange model ; The participation model of democracy ; Descriptive representation ; Federalism and representation ; Unity ; Relationships among conceptions of democracy ; Who rules common cause?
• Lobbying: working to persuade the undecided : Ways of influencing congress ; Common cause and congressional incentives for self-regulation ; Congressional incentives for reform ; Reforming the executive branch ; Litigation and political action
• The program: campaign reform : Do good-government reforms matter? ; Campaign reform ; Funding of congressional elections
• The program: procedural reform : Getting information about decision making ; The government in the sunshine ; Lobbying disclosure legislation ; Financial disclosure legislation ; The sunset proposal for administrative reform ; Reform of the house of representatives ; State-level reforms ; Anti-war lobbying
• Will common cause endure? : Networks of reform: the logic of orientation ; The creator of the logic ; Continuing without Gardner ; Pragmatism, the concept of representation, and political survival ; The future ; The effectiveness of middle class reform movements.

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ISBN

• 0934540292 :
• 0934540284 (pbk.) :

LCCN

^^^84007732^

OCLC

10724372

RCP

H - S

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