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Contents Preface Contributors 1. Introduction: The Changing Nature of Interest Group Politics 1 Burdett A. Loomis and Allan J. Cigler I. Group Organization 2. Targeting Success: The Enduring Power of the NRA 37 Kelly D. Patterson and Matthew M. Singer 3. Politics of Tribal Recognition: Casinos, Culture, and Controversy 65 Michael Nelson 4. A More Level Playing Field or a New Mobilization of Bias? Interest Groups and Advocacy for the Disadvantaged 86 Dara Strolovitch 5. Big-Money Donors to Environmental Groups: What They Give and What They Get 108 Anthony J. Nownes and Allan J. Cigler 6. Interest Organization Communities: Their Assembly and Consequences 130 David Lowery and Virginia Gray II. Groups in the Electoral Process 7. Getting the Spirit? Religious and Partisan Mobilization in the 2004 Elections 157 James L. Guth, Lyman A. Kellstedt, John C. Green, and Corwin E. Smidt 8. Interest Group Money in Elections 182 Marian Currinder, Joanne Connor Green, and M. Margaret Conway 9. 527s: The New Bad Guys of Campaign Finance 212 Diana Dwyre III. Groups in the Policy Process 10. Nonprofit Organizations as Interest Groups: Politics of Passivity Jeffrey M. Berry 11. Is Corporate Lobbying Rational or Just a Waste of Money? Erik K. Godwin, R. Kenneth Godwin, and Scott Ainsworth 12. Identity Crisis: How Interest Groups Struggle to Define Themselves in Washington Michael T. Heaney 13. American Interests in the Balance? Do Ethnic Groups Dominate Foreign Policy Making? Eric M. Uslaner 14. What Happened to the Japanese Lobby in Washington? The Decline of the Japan Lobby and the Rise of the New China Lobby Ronald J. Hrebenar, Valerie Ploumpis, and Clive S. Thomas 15. Where Have All the Interest Groups Gone? An Analysis of Interest Group Participation in Presidential Nominations to the Supreme Court of the United States Karen O'Connor, Alixandra B. Yanus, and Linda Mancillas Patterson 16. Emerging Issues, New Organizations: Interest Groups and the Making of Nanotechnology Policy Christopher Bosso and Ruben Rodrigues 17. The Well-Informed Lobbyist: Information and Interest Group Lobbying Rogan Kersh 18. Does K Street Run Through Capitol Hill? Lobbying Congress in the Republican Era Burdett A. Loomis IV. Conclusion 19. Organized Interests, Political Parties, and Representation: James Madison, Tom DeLay, and the Soul of American Politics Allan J. Cigler and Burdett A. Loomis
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Pressure groups -- United States.