Interest Groups (Political Science)
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Lo que aquí se presenta es el resultado de hacer un seguimiento diario-analítico de la acción, en un segundo intervalo del gobierno federal mexicano 2018-2024, presidido por el Licenciado Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Cubre la etapa que va... more
En mis escritos y publicaciones, me refiero frecuentemente a la estructura real que permite al poder plutocrático operar su férreo dominio sobre los habitantes del planeta tierra. Pero... ¿Quienes la componen? ¿Como funciona? En otras... more
The territory sovereignty is the integrity of a nation which has responsibility to govern and to manage that territory in order to keep its image in international’s view and to achieve its national interest. According to the international... more
El año pasado Grijalbo publicó el libro “4T, claves para descifrar el rompecabezas”. Sin duda alguna, esta colección de 17 ensayos coordinada por Blanca Heredia y Hernán Gómez Bruera constituye un excelente esfuerzo para tratar de... more
Qui dirige l’économie ? Qui détient le pouvoir de décision dans ce domaine ? Quelles sont les limites de ce pouvoir ? Ce Dossier tente d’apporter des réponses à ces questions en passant en revue les différents acteurs intervenant dans la... more
The policy cycle framework originates from the idea of organizing and ordering the complexity of policymaking. It is a heuristic tool through which different stages of the ongoing and never-ending dynamics of policy processes can be... more
Understanding why the politics of climate change are contentious requires examining the structural barriers which make it so hard for humanity to stop burning fossil fuels and adding greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. Why-despite the... more
El presente Volumen XV tiene 1,500 páginas. Está organizado por fecha, con agrupación por mes. Abarca el texto completo de las conferencias de prensa matutinas que el Presidente Andrés Manuel López Obrador encabezó, entre el 21 de marzo... more
The present study attempts to identify and characterise some basic principles that underlined historical development in ancient Egypt, specifically during the Old Kingdom period. Looking at the ever-increasing corpus of the... more
The literature on EU integration gives no clear answer as to where real decision-making power in the EU is situated. Which stakeholders are the most influential when major decisions are made, for example? An approach held to have... more
The first edition of the university textbook Political Parties and Interest Groups by the authors Prof. Savo Klomovski (PhD) and Prof. Tanja Karakamiseva (PhD) was published in 2007. Nine years later, in April 2016, a reformed and... more
El presente Volumen VII tiene 1,916 páginas, organizadas por fecha y agrupadas por mes. Abarca el texto completo de las conferencias de prensa matutinas que el Presidente Andrés Manuel López Obrador encabezó, entre el 18 de marzo de... more
This dissertation examines the role of external experts in local agenda setting. The study conducts on archival research on three components of Oklahoma City’s Metropolitan Area Projects programs, specifically education, indoor arenas,... more
The aim of this chapter is to analyze the relationship between the economic elite and Italian fascism during the dictatorship years. This relationship was fundamental in fascism’s rise to power and in the subsequent effort to stabilize... more
Ph.D. thesis Economic History, Uppsala University In 1971, the Swedish parliament approved a government bill that introduced extensive state regulation of marketing. Because of this, the business community’s self-regulation of... more
The first edition of the university textbook Political Parties and Interest Groups by the authors Prof. Savo Klomovski (PhD) and Prof. Tanja Karakamiseva (PhD) was published in 2007. Nine years later, in April 2016, a reformed and... more
"Corruption has become one of the most popular topics in the social scientific disciplines. However, there is a lack of interdisciplinary communication about corruption. Models developed by different academic disciplines are often... more
Interests play an important role in all modern political systems. But the forms in which interests are articulated very much depend on the context of the particular case. Accordingly, this chapter reviews at the outset various definitions... more
El presente Volumen VIII tiene 1,691 páginas, organizadas por fecha y agrupadas por mes. Abarca el texto completo de las conferencias de prensa matutinas que el Presidente Andrés Manuel López Obrador encabezó, entre el 01 de julio de... more
Much evidence suggests that interest groups not only respond to but also try to shape public opinion. So far, however, we know little about the effectiveness of these attempts. I present an argument that suggests that contrary to party... more
Dieser Beitrag vermittelt Grundwissen, um für einen Verband Lobbying-Konzepte zu erstellen. Er regt zunächst dazu an, über Lobbyarbeit als Politikberatung und das dafür nötige Selbstverständnis nachzudenken. Er stellt Lobbychancen im... more
Astroturf lobbying refers to the simulation of grassroots support for or against a public policy. The objective of this tactic is for private interests to pretend they have public support for their cause. However, omitting to disclose the... more
Cet ouvrage, résultat de quinze années d’enquêtes, aborde aussi bien la formation des lobbyistes que les scandales médiatisés. Il souhaite, en cinq temps, dépassionner le débat en apportant des réponses aux questions que se posent les... more
Per lungo tempo, la scienza politica italiana ha dedicato scarsa attenzione allo studio dei gruppi di interesse e del lob-bying. Tuttavia, negli ultimi anni, questa tendenza è andata largamente attenuandosi, e la conoscenza a disposizione... more
This thesis uses the deductive case-explanation model of process-tracing to determine the conditions under which the Australian Government was most responsive to public preferences relating to the size of the aid budget between 2000 and... more
The complexities of modern society increase the amount of necessary government actions and decrease the amount of deliberation that goes into them. The resulting strain on our policymaking system leads government officials to rely on... more
More Americans than ever before believe that money in politics weakens our democracy. Public opinion polls show that the number of people who believe that the country is run by a few big interests looking after themselves rose to nearly... more
Criminal deportation policy in Canada follows a cyclical rather than a linear or partisan pattern. Based on a case study of Haitian residents deported between 1989 and 2009, I argue that criminal deportation cannot be explained as a... more
In Poland there exists a phenomenon of a “diagnosis without consequences” – numerous structural deficiencies of the Polish state, although recognized as such for years, are not met by any consistent counter-action. To explain the... more
El documento, fue escrito para su difusión en XEMC-TV la televisora chetumaleña que narra 200 años de lucha ininterrumpida del pueblo mexicano, para tener un gobierno nacional mexicano libre del poder omnímodo de oligarquía local y... more
Solo negli anni più recenti il fenomeno della rivoluzione ha trovato nelle scienze sociali una significativa collocazione teorica nel repertorio dei processi che trasformano il sistema sociale. Nei primi due decenni del secondo... more
Any democratic society requires mechanisms for citizens to have effective political voice. Clearly, political parties provide a key channel for expressing views and preferences. However , organised interests provide another important... more
Why are US labor unions so weak? Union decline has had important consequences for politics, inequality, and social policy. Common explanations cite employment shifts, public opinion, labor laws, and differences in working class culture... more
Recent research on the politics of contemporary policymaking has centered the contributions of diverse conservative forces. Conservatives are viewed as the chief proponents of marketizing reforms featuring retrenchment of social programs,... more
Contemporaneously, the study of EU lobbying appears somewhat disconnected from other sub-areas within the study of EU-politics. Research tends to be focused on single issues – either particularistic or directional – and concentrates on... more
There has been in the recent past a revival of the interest in lobbying studying and lobbying policies, both in terms of regulating this activity and increasing scrutiny for lobbying, lobbyists and legislators. The current article... more
In recent decades, there has been a considerable expansion of citizen participation in protests and voluntary advocacy groups. To analyze this development, the social movement literature and the interest group literature have emerged. Yet... more
The paper aims to explain a highly differentiated use of the law by two transnational collective actors, the European Women’s Lobby (EWL) and the European Roma and Travellers Forum (ERTF), and this despite them belonging to the same... more
The Norwegian polity, along with the polities of the other small countries in Western Europe, has frequently been classified as close to the neo-corporatist model of interest group participation in politics (Crepaz 1992, Katzenstein 1985,... more
The following quote is an excerpt from the novel, ‘In the Name of the Rose’: “Laughter kills fear, and without fear, there is no faith. Who does not fear the devil no longer needs a God.” That conversation ensued between the Blind Abbot... more