Linking Citizens to Government: Interest Group Politics at Common Cause. (book reviews)

While an impressive array of both theoretical and empirical information has been accumulated dealing with such concerns as the collective action problem or the activities and impact of political action committees, research in the field of interest group politics is fragmented, and a number of important areas have been conspicuously neglected.

The relative lack of comprehensive, theoretically based studies of individual organized interests represents one such research gap. Factors such as the discipline's generally low regard for case studies, the intimidation that researchers may feel ...

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