Bøger af William P. Browne

A range of organizations is covered, including mass membership organizations, trade associations, cooperatives, unions, public interest groups, think tanks, and policy research organizations, all of which are involved in some manner in the agricultural policy process.

?[Editors Browne and Olson] and nine other authors, mostly academics, attempt to fill the gap [a neglect of the political dimensions of aging issues] with ten well-documented chapters, analyzing aging programs and policies of recent decades. ... The overall theme is that, although older Americans have emerged as a distinctive political force, the fragmentation of the special interest groups that affect to speak for them, when set against the fragmented nature of the American political system, results in complex, widely divergent, and little understood political repercussions on which research is in its infancy. The evaluation and prognoses of the Binstock school are both realistic and pessimistic, seeing present programs as deficient and bound to worsen in a continuing climate of fiscal constraints. Intended as an introduction for readers new to the field of aging, this collection has many merits.?-Choice

Synthesizing theory, personal research, and prior studies on interest groups and other lobbies, the author offers an overview of organized political interests and explains how and why they affect public policy. Drawing on his experience researching interest groups, he assesses the impact that special interests have long had in shaping policy.