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The 'one percent' has been providing an ever larger share of US election campaign funds since the 1980s. Well over half of the money contributed to the presidential race in 2015 came from only about 350 families. One-fourth of it came from just 78 donors, all of whom made contributions of $1 million or more. So can we still say America is a democracy if a few hundred rich families provide such disproportionate shares of campaign funds? This book explains the larger debate about how Americans want their democracy to work.

Campaign funds --- Political action committees --- Corporations --- Law and legislation --- History. --- Political activity

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This book studies the current paradox within the voting literature on campaign contributions and legislative voting behavior.

Campaign funds --- Political action committees --- Legislation --- Legislative process --- Law --- PACs (Political action committees) --- Political participation --- Pressure groups --- Assessments, Political --- Campaign contributions --- Campaign expenditures --- Campaign finance --- Election contributions --- Elections --- Political assessments --- Political campaigns --- Political parties --- Finance --- California. --- Voting. --- #SBIB:054.AANKOOP --- #SBIB:324H42 --- Politieke structuren: verkiezingen

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This book looks at 200 years of democracy around the world viewing the history of democratization as a series of episodes in which social movements and elite power holders converged to reorganize political systems.

Democracy --- Social movements --- History. --- Pressure groups. --- Advocacy groups --- Interest groups --- Political interest groups --- Special interest groups (Pressure groups) --- Functional representation --- Political science --- Representative government and representation --- Lobbying --- Policy networks --- Political action committees --- Social control

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India's vibrant civil society sector has become a powerful symbol of political participation in the country. It comprises a wealth of media organizations, caste and religion based associations, farmers groups, labor unions, social service organizations, and an almost limitless number of development organizations. Given this vibrancy, it is difficult to grasp the characteristics of civil society at the transnational or even the national level. Delving beneath the progressive surface to the local level, one finds a murky and multifaceted world of competing interests, compromises, uneasy alliances and erratic victories. The Politics of Collective Advocacy in India critically examines the enormous gap between the ways collective action in India is studied and the ways it operates "on the ground". It identifies what influences the relative success or failure of different movements; the tools activists use to overcome obstacles; the traps that derail efforts to frame, politicize, and act on certain issues and assumptions about particular forms of action. The authors synthesize the experiences of a number of organizations and movements to identify the most effective tools that civil society actors at all levels can use to achieve positive social change.

Pressure groups --- Political activists --- Groupes de pression --- Activistes --- Activists, Political --- Advocacy groups --- Interest groups --- Political interest groups --- Special interest groups (Pressure groups) --- Political participation --- Functional representation --- Political science --- Representative government and representation --- Lobbying --- Policy networks --- Political action committees --- Social control --- Persons

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Every day in Brussels, countless governmental and civil society interest groups seek to influence the policies of the European Union (EU). Many groups, once they have established themselves in the EU capital, apply the insights of Public Affairs (PA) management, the modern art of lobbying. Many PA practitioners in the EU as well as academics specialised in EU and PA studies developed fresh insights on 'how to influence the EU better'. This manual brings together the most up-to-date collection of PA expertise available to anyone desiring to enhance the success of their efforts to influence the EU. This new edition of the best-selling title is filled with new details, cases, findings and practices. This fully revised and updated fourth edition of the 2002 bestseller offers compelling new insights into the most advanced practices of influencing the decision-making in the European Union's corridors of power. The author's uniquely privileged position as advisor to a wide range of lobby groups from several different countries throws much-needed light on best practice and success in public affairs management.

Business and politics --- Lobbying --- Lobbyists --- Pressure groups --- European Union. --- Advocacy groups --- Interest groups --- Political interest groups --- Special interest groups (Pressure groups) --- Legislative advocates --- Business --- Politics and business --- Political aspects --- E.U. --- Functional representation --- Political science --- Representative government and representation --- Policy networks --- Political action committees --- Social control --- Politics, Practical --- Political business cycles --- E-books --- Lobbying - European Union countries