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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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Why are some civic associations better than others at getting - and keeping - people involved in activism? Using in-person observations, surveys, and field experiments, this book compares and describes contemporary models for engaging activists to show the effectiveness of one that combine political activism with transformative personal and collective growth.

Political leadership -- United States. --- Pressure groups -- United States -- Management. --- Pressure groups -- United States -- Membership. --- Public interest groups -- United States -- Management. --- Public interest groups -- United States -- Membership. --- Public interest groups --- Pressure groups --- Political leadership --- Government - U.S. --- Law, Politics & Government --- Political Institutions & Public Administration - U.S., Legislative Branch --- 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 --- Citizens' watchdog groups --- PIRGs (Public interest groups) --- Public interest lobbying groups --- Public interest research groups --- Watchdog groups, Citizens' --- Management --- Membership --- Sociology of organization --- Community organization

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Interesado casi siempre en los personajes de la vida política mexicana y en el modo en que éstos modifican el rumbo de la democracia, el autor busca en este análisis desentrañar las particularidades de una élite local que se ha singularizado en la historia mexicana: el Grupo Atlacomulco. Sin embargo, y por encima del caso, logra poner en el centro del debate los alcances del poder, los singulares medios que algunos líderes han empleado para inspirar y asegurarse lealtad, y alto grado de madurez que efectivamente algunos grupos han alcanzado, en lo individual y lo grupal, para competir por el poder sin destruirse.

Political sociology --- anno 1900-1999 --- State of Mexico --- Political leadership --- Elite (Social sciences) --- Pressure groups --- History --- 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 --- Elites (Social sciences) --- Leadership --- Power (Social sciences) --- Social classes --- Social groups --- History of the Americas

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Citizens and Groups in Contemporary China began with two symposia held in 1977 and 1978. The first, a workshop on “The Pursuit of Interest in China,” was held in August 1977 at the University of Michigan, and was organized by Michel Oksenberg and Richard Baum. It was supported by a grant from the Joint Committee on Contemporary China of the Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned Societies, using funds provided by the Andrew Mellon Foundation. Its principal goal was to use detailed case studies to explore the relevance of interest group approaches to the study of Chinese politics. The second, a panel organized by the editor for the 1978 Chicago meeting of the Association of Asian Studies, sought to apply participatory approaches to the role of social groups in the Chinese political process. The striking degree of overlap in the focus, methodology, and participants in both meetings suggested to a number of the paper writers that there was a need for a more eclectic approach which would focus simultaneously on individual and group actors. The recognition that a volume based on such an approach might serve the needs of students and scholars seeking to examine the dynamics of informal influence and power in China was the stimulus for publishing the studies presented here in book form.

Political participation --- Pressure groups --- S06/0261 --- S06/0500 --- 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 --- China: Politics and government--Class conflict --- China: Politics and government--Other modern political movements (e.g. anarchism, Socialism, dissident movements, Beijing Spring, Tian'anmen) --- China --- Politics and government

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Where politics is dominated by two large parties, as in the United States, politicians should be relatively immune to the influence of small groups. Yet narrow interest groups often win private benefits against majority preferences and at great public expense. Why? The "vulnerability thesis" is that the electoral system is largely to blame, making politicians in two-party systems more vulnerable to interest group demands than politicians in multiparty systems. Political scientist Lorelei Moosbrugger ranks democracies on a continuum of political vulnerability and tests the thesis by examining agrochemical policy in Austria, Britain, Germany, Sweden, and the European Union.

Majorities --- Majorities. --- Pressure groups --- Pressure groups. --- Representative government and representation --- Representative government and representation. --- Parliamentary government --- Political representation --- Representation --- Self-government --- Constitutional history --- Constitutional law --- Political science --- Democracy --- Elections --- Republics --- Suffrage --- Advocacy groups --- Interest groups --- Political interest groups --- Special interest groups (Pressure groups) --- Functional representation --- Lobbying --- Policy networks --- Political action committees --- Social control --- Voting --- Minorities --- E-books