Overview
- Demonstrates that interest groups are highly active in local politics and have an impact on political outcomes
- Builds a foundation for future research on local interest groups
- Fills a gap in interest group scholarship, which has mainly focused on national politics until now
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Interest group scholarship has so far focused mainly on national politics and has had very little to say about interest groups in American cities, counties, school districts, and special districts. This special issue is a step toward remedying that: it is a collection of articles and essays that examine some of the interest groups that are commonly active in US local politics. The contributions herein discuss real estate developers, tenant organizations, teachers' unions, police unions, and local PACs—covering topics such as how they are organized, how they engage in local politics, some of the constraints on their influence, and the nuanced ways in which ideology and identities can sometimes shape what coalitions are possible in the local context. By bringing this work together in one place, in a journal devoted to research on interest groups, the hope is that this special issue will help to cement “interest groups in local politics” as the recognizable research focus it deserves to be.
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Sarah Anzia is Associate Professor of Public Policy & Political Science at University of California Berkeley, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Interest Groups in U.S. Local Politics
Editors: Sarah Anzia
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37626-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-37625-2Published: 16 September 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-37628-3Due: 17 October 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-37626-9Published: 15 September 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: V, 133
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations
Additional Information: Additional bibliographic information: Spin-off from Interest Groups & Advocacy “Political Parties and Electoral Clientelism,” Volume 11, issue 2, June 2022
Topics: Political Science, Public Policy, Electoral Politics, Legislative and Executive Politics