European University Institute Library

The organization ecology of interest communities, assessment and agenda, edited by David Lowery, Darren Halpin, Virginia Gray

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

illustrations

index present

non fiction

The organization ecology of interest communities

bibliography

917131604

edited by David Lowery, Darren Halpin, Virginia Gray

Interest groups, advocacy and democracy series

assessment and agenda

"The organization ecology approach to the study of interest representation and lobbying is now almost two decades old, and a substantial body of theoretical and empirical work in both the United States and Europe has developed using this approach. Critically assessing this body of work, this collection summarises the origins and development of this research program, grounding it more firmly in the larger literature on organization ecology. It provides critical assessments of this literature from those working outside of its theoretical and empirical confines to respond to those critics and to outline an agenda for research for the future using the organization ecology approach to interest representation. The contributions to the book provide a review of the research program for those using organization ecology to study interest representation, outlines how it contributes to the larger body of work on both interest representation and organization ecology, and encourages future research on interest representation from a community-level perspective."--, Provided by publisher

1. An Introduction to the Population Ecology Approach / David Lowery and Virginia Gray -- 2. Organizational Demography Research in the United States / Anthony J. Nownes -- 3. Interest Organization Demography Research in Europe / Joost Berkhout -- 4. Towards a Population Ecology Approach to Trans-National Advocacy? An Emerging Research Field / Jan Beyers and Marcel Hanegraaff -- 5. Challenges of Integrating Levels of Analysis in Interest Group Research / Thomas T. Holyoke -- 6. Organizational Populations: Professionalization, Maintenance and Democratic Delivery / William A. Maloney -- 7. Case Study Approaches to Studying Organization Survival and Adaptation / Christopher Witko -- 8. Lobbying as a Leveraged Act: On Resource Dependencies and Lobby Presence / Caelesta Braun -- 9. Louder Chorus-Same Accent: The Representation of Interests in Pressure Politics, 1981-2011 / Kay Lehman Schlozman, Philip Edward Jones, Hye Young You, Traci Burch, Sidney Verba, Henry E. Brady -- 10. Interest Community Influence: A Neopluralist Perspective / Beth L. Leech -- 11. Population Dynamics and Representation / Frank R. Baumgartner and Kelsey Shoub -- 12. The Influence of Organization Ecology Research on Population Ecology of Interest Representation: Present Practices and Future Prospects / Darren R. Halpin -- 13. Beyond Metaphor: Populations and Groups, Interests, and Lobbyists / Burdett Loomis -- 14. The Future of Organization Ecology in Interest Representation / David Lowery, Virginia Gray and Darren R. Halpin