The Interest Group Connection: Electioneering, Lobbying, and Policymaking in Washington

Table of contents

• Title Page i
• Contents iii
• Preface vii
• Comments on the Electoral Connection 80
• Part III the Congressional Connection 87
• 6 the Dynamics of Lobbying the Hill 89
• 7 Grassroots Organizations and Equilibrium Cycles in Group Mobilization and Access 100
• 10 Interest Groups and the Congressional Budget Process: Lobbying in the Era of Deficit Politics 154
• Acknowledgments 173
• Notes 173
• 11 Tobacco Industry Pacs and the Nation's Health: A Second Opinion 174
• Comments on the Congressional Connection 196
• Part IV the Executive Connection 203
• 12 Lobbying the President and the Bureaucracy 205
• Notes 213
• Notes 223
• 14 Lobbying for the President: Influencing Congress from the White House 224
• Notes 238
• Notes 256
• Comments on the Executive Connection 258
• Part V the Judicial Connection 265
• Acknowledgments 287
• Notes 287
• 17 Please God, Save This Honorable Court: the Emergence of the Conservative Religious Bar 289
• Acknowledgment 300
• Notes 300
• Notes 302
• Notes 316
• Comments on the Judicial Connection 318
• Part VI Conclusion 325
• 19 Interest Groups at the Dawn of a New Millennium 327
• References 337
• Index 361
• About the Contributors 374

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