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Title:

The scale of interest organization in democratic politics : data and research methods / edited by Darren Halpin and Grant Jordan.

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

2012

Description:

xiii, 267 p. :; ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Pressure groups--Research.
Pressure groups--Research--United States.
Pressure groups--Research--Europe.
Demokratie.
Interessenverband.
Aufsatzsammlung.

Other Authors:

Halpin, Darren.
Jordan, A. G.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Politics is not basketball: numbers are not results / Grant Jordan and Darren Halpin. Counting the voices in the heavenly chorus: pressure participants in Washington politics / Kay Lehman Schlozman -- Interest organization populations: the demands of the scale of analysis and the theoretical purposes of counting / David Lowery -- The changing contours of British representation: pluralism in practice / Grant Jordan and Jamie Greenan -- Numbers in a niche: a practitioner's guide to mapping gay and lesbian groups in the US / Anthony J. Nownes -- Multiple arenas, multiple populations: counting organized interests in Scottish public policy / Darren Halpin, Graeme Baxter and Iain MacLeod -- Tracking interest group populations in the US and UK / Grant Jordan, Frank R. Baumgartner, John D. McCarthy, Sean Bevan, and Jamie Greenan -- The usual suspects: interest group dynamics and representation in Denmark / Peter Munk Christiansen -- Mapping the WTO interest group system: exploring density, diversity, and stability over time / Marcel Hannegraaff, Jan Beyers, and Caelesta Braun -- Above and below the radar: mapping the distribution of civil society associations in England / John Mohan -- Counting at the local level / Jan W. van Deth and William Maloney -- Politics is not basketball: numbers are not results / Grant Jordan and Darren Halpin.

Series:

Interest groups, advocacy and democracy series

ISBN:

0230284434 (alk. paper)
9780230284432 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)748328871

LCCN:

2011042955

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)