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Table of contents for Basic interests : the importance of groups in politics and in political science / Frank R. Baumgartner and Beth L. Leech.

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	List of Illustrations
	Preface
	Introduction
Ch. 1	Progress and Confusion	3
Ch. 2	Barriers to Accumulation	22
Ch. 3	The Rise and Decline of the Group Approach	44
Ch. 4	Collective Action and the New Literature on Interest Groups	64
Ch. 5	Bias and Diversity in the Interest-Group System	83
Ch. 6	The Dynamics of Bias	100
Ch. 7	Building a Literature on Lobbying, One Case Study at a Time	120
Ch. 8	Surveys of Interest-Group Activities	147
Ch. 9	Learning from Experience	168
Appendix	Articles on Interest Groups Published in the American Political Science Review, 1950-1995	189
	References	197
	Index	217

Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Pressure groups United States, Lobbying United States