Interest Group Politics

Interest Group Politics, 10th Edition, is an academic reader collecting scholarly articles on organized interests and lobbying for undergraduate students. The volume examines how interest groups organize their operations and seek to influence public policy.

The collected essays analyze the internal structure of advocacy organizations, their electoral activities, and their lobbying efforts across a wide range of policy issues. Contributing authors explore how groups evolve over time and compete with comparable organizations.

For the 2019 edition, the volume introduced 15 new contributions, presenting classic analyses of group mobilization alongside studies of emerging developments such as the growth of transgender groups.