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Beschreibung
This book is the first to examine what influences Congress across the hundreds of issues it deals with, and produces some surprising conclusions.
This book is the first to examine what influences Congress across the hundreds of issues it deals with, and produces some surprising conclusions.
Über den Autor
Paul Burstein is Professor of Sociology, Adjunct Professor of Political Science, and Samuel and Althea Stroum Chair in Jewish Studies at the University of Washington, Seattle. He is the author of Discrimination, Jobs, and Politics: The Struggle for Equal Employment Opportunity in the United States Since the New Deal, and has published on topics including policy change; public opinion; social movements; interest organizations; congressional action on work, family, and gender; and the mobilization of law; with articles appearing in the American Sociological Review, the American Journal of Sociology, Social Forces, the American Political Science Review, Political Research Quarterly, the Sociological Forum, the Law and Society Review, and other journals. He has been elected to the Council and the Publications Committee of the American Sociological Association and to the position of Chair of the ASA's Political Sociology section. He has also served on the editorial boards of twelve journals in sociology, political science and other fields.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. Introduction; 2. Policy change; 3. Public opinion; 4. Advocacy: how Americans try to influence Congress; 5. The impact of advocacy on congressional action; 6. Advocacy, information, and policy innovation; 7. Conclusions.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Genre: Importe, Politikwissenschaften
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9781107684256
ISBN-10: 1107684250
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Burstein, Paul
Hersteller: Cambridge University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 216 x 140 x 15 mm
Von/Mit: Paul Burstein
Erscheinungsdatum: 23.09.2015
Gewicht: 0,355 kg
Artikel-ID: 105733376

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