The Oxford Handbook of American Political Parties and Interest Groups
Edited by L. Sandy Maisel, Jeffrey M. Berry, George C. Edwards
Abstract
The Oxford Handbook of American Political Parties and Interest Groups is a major new volume that aims to help with the assessment of the current state of scholarship on parties and interest groups and the directions in which it needs to move. Never before has the academic literature on political parties received such an extended treatment. Thirty articles critically assess both the major contributions to the literature and the ways in which it has developed. With contributions from most of the leading scholars in the field, the Handbook provides a definitive point of reference for all those working in and around the area. Equally important, the articles also identify areas of new and interesting research. The articles offer a distinctive point of view, an argument about the successes and failures of past scholarship, and a set of recommendations about how future work ought to develop. This Handbook is one of The Oxford Handbooks of American Politics a set of reference books offering authoritative and engaging critical overviews of the state of scholarship on American politics.
Keywords:
academic literature,
research,
parties,
interest groups,
scholarship
Bibliographic Information
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- Print Publication Date:
- Jan 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199542628
- Published to Oxford Handbooks Online:
- May 2010
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199542628.001.0001
Editors
L. Sandy Maisel,
editor
L. Sandy Maisel is William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Government and Director, Goldfarb Center for Public Affairs and Civic Engagement, Colby College.
Jeffrey M. Berry,
editor
Jeffrey M. Berry is John Richard Skuse Professor of Political Science at Tufts University. He specializes in the areas of interest groups, citizen participation, nonprofits, and public policymaking. He is the author or co-author of Lobbying for the People, The Interest Group Society, Feeding Hungry People: Rulemaking in the Food Stamp Program, The Challenge of Democracy, and The Rebirth of Urban Democracy, winner of the American Political Science Association's 1994 Gladys Kammerer Award for the Best Book in American Politics, and the American Political Science Association Organized Section on Urban Politics' 1994 Best Book in Urban Politics Award.
George C. Edwards,
editor
George C. Edwards III is Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Texas A&M University and holds the Chair in Presidential Studies. A leading scholar of the presidency, he has written or edited 23 books on American politics and public policy making. He is also editor of Presidential Studies Quarterly and consulting editor of The Oxford Handbook of American Politics series. Professor Edwards has served as president of the Presidency Research Section of the American Political Science Association, which has named its annual dissertation prize in his honor and awarded him its Career Service Award.
