Linking Citizens to Government: Interest Group Politics at Common Cause

by Lawrence S. Rothenberg

Book Overview

Lawrence Rothenberg examines some of the most elusive aspects of interest group operations through an in-depth study of one of the largest interest groups in Washington, Common Cause. In developing what might be called a membership theory, he asks such questions as: why do members join a group? Who stays and who leaves and why? What is the nature of the relationships among the activists, the group leaders and the rank-and-file members? How do these...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521425778
• ISBN13: 9780521425773
• Release Date: July 1992
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"