The People's Lobby: Organizational Innovation and the Rise of Interest Group Politics in the United States, 1890-1925

by Elisabeth S. Clemens

Book Overview

In this pathbreaking work, Elisabeth S. Clemens recovers the social origins of interest group politics in the United States. Between 1890 and 1925, a system centered on elections and party organizations was partially transformed by increasingly prominent legislative and administrative policy-making as well as the insistent participation of non-partisan organizations.

Clemens sheds new light on how farmers, workers, and women invented strategies...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226109933
• ISBN13: 9780226109930
• Release Date: September 1997
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 467 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.1"