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• Cover
• Copyright
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: A Social Orientation to Interest Groups and Political Life
• Case study: From AUMF to the national security state
• Notes
• 1. Interests and Groups
• Case study: The interests of oil
• Case study: A boycott in Montgomery
• Case study: A tea party from the ground up or top down?
• Notes
• 2. Power, Access, and Influence
• Case study: Sugar research
• Notes
• 3. Interest Groups as Intermediaries between Nation- States and Citizens
• Case study: “Gimme five” and the principal–agent problem
• Case study: The revolving door of the opioid epidemic
• Notes
• 4. Inequality and Interest Groups
• Case study: The Matthew Effect
• Notes
• 5. Interest Group Politics in a Global Context
• Case study: Public relations for the Kremlin
• Case study: Global labor activism and sports apparel
• Notes
• 6. New Directions in the Study of Lobbyists and Interest Groups
• Notes
• References
• Index
• End User License Agreement