Examines whether campaigns to enact 'living wage' ordinances and other local redistributive programmes represent gaps in the traditional theory or political opportunism. This title investigates the role of the courts in distinguishing between these explanations.
Caciquismo (roughly translated as "boss politics") has played a major role in Mexican political and social life. Loosely knit interest groups, or "caciques, of diverse character--syndicates, farmers, left- and right-wingers, white-collar workers--have exercised great power within Mexico's distinctive political system.
Are you worried about global warming? Sick to death of human rights abuses, unaffordable housing, junk food, or airport enlargement? This work reveals how to launch, publicise and fund a campaign and to put pressure on politicians and businesses using tools ranging from letter-writing and boycotts to protest marches and direct action.
Explores the need for political science to pay more attention to complex interactions involving politically relevant groups. Distinguished contributors report on data from around the world and at different levels of political decision making -- from 'below the radar' in local communities to global negations at the World Trade Organization.
Explores the role and impact of interest groups on democracy, both in theory and practice, in the context of a changing continent. This book explores how the power of interest groups developed due to growing distance between elected representatives and the European people and forecasts what this development might mean for vitality of government.
A collection of essays that present the best of feminist scholarship on the suffrage movement, illustrating its complexity. It includes major studies of the fascinating, but neglected groups that participated in the campaign: the Women's Franchise League; the Women's Freedom League; the Women's Tax Resistance League and the United Suffragists.
Lobbying is a global industry which thrives wherever democratic governments are established. This book straddles the globe, from the USA to Japan. It covers the Westminster and Scottish Parliaments, and the Welsh, Northern Ireland and London Assemblies. It also examines the lobbying scenes in the USA and Brussels.
Lobbying is a global industry which thrives wherever democracy is established. This book covers the Westminster and Scottish Parliaments, and the Welsh, Northern Ireland and London Assemblies. It examines the lobbying scenes in the USA and Brussels. It also covers the historical background to lobbying, and the ethical and regulatory frameworks.
Covering pressure group politics in the UK and the increasingly important EU dimension, this study also includes the sleaze scandals surrounding the parliamentary lobby, grass-roots direct action, the use of the media and courts and the importance of business, labour and consumer interests.
This is a history of the first anti-cigarette movement, dating from the Victorian Age to the Great Depression, when cigarettes were both legally restricted and stigmatized in America. It shows that the movement voiced every issue that is still being debated about smoking today.
Presents experiences of the Rossport Five talk who confronted the might of Shell Oil. This book presents descriptions of the sense of siege felt in the small village of Rossport as the enormous Corrib gas project was being prepared and developed. It describes the men and their wives efforts to prevent Shell entering their lands.