Interest Group Politics in the Northeastern States
420 pages | 4 illustrations | 6 x 9 | 1993
Cloth edition is not available
ISBN 978-0-271-02576-6 | paper: $28.00 sh
Interest Group Politics in the Northeastern States examines each of the twelve northeastern states in a separate chapter that seeks to convey the flavor and dynamics of politics in that state as a foundation for explaining the lobbying activities found within the state. The interest groups are placed within a historical context and within the current framework of the structure of state government and the party system. Additionally, the lobby registration laws, restrictions on lobbyists, PAC regulations, PAC patterns and political contribution patterns, and relative power of the various interest groups in each state are noted as they have changed over time.
Ronald J. Hrebenar is Professor of Political Science at the University of Utah.
Clive S. Thomas is Professor of Political Science at the University of Alaska, Southeast. They are co-editors of Interest Group Politics in the South (Alabama, 1992), Interest Group Politics in the Midwest (Iowa State, 1993), and Interest Group Politics in the American West (Utah, 1987).
Contents
The
Role of Interest Groups in Northeastern Politics Ronald
J. Hrebenar
Connecticut:
Political Parties Court the Interest Groups Sarah
McCally Morehouse
Delaware:
Friends and Neighbors Politics Janet
B. Johnson and Joseph A. Pika
Maine:
From the Big Three to Diversity Douglas
I. Hodgkin
Maryland:The
Struggle for Power in the Midst of Changes, Complexity, and Institutional
Constraints Ronald
C. Lippincott and Larry W. Thomas
Massachusetts:
Citizen Power and Corporate Power John
C. Berg
New
Hampshire:Tradition and the Challenge of Growth Robert
Egbert and Michelle Ann Fistek
New
Jersey: From Political Hacks to Political Action Committees Barbara
G. Salmore and Stephen A. Salmore
New
York: Powerful Groups and Powerful Parties David
L. Cingranelli
Pennsylvania:
Individualism Writ Large Patricia
McGee Crotty
Rhode
Island: The Politics of Intimacy Mark
S. Hyde
Vermont:
Interest Groups in a Rural Technopolity Frank
Bryan and Ann Hallowell
West
Virginia: Coal and the New West Virginia Politics James
R. Oxendale and Allan S. Hammock
The
Changing Nature of Interest Group
Activity in
the Northeast Clive
S. Thomas