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Interest Group Politics in the Southern States

Interest Group Politics in the Southern States

Edited by Ronald J. Hrebenar and Clive Thomas

432 Pages, 6.00 x 9.00 x 1.30 in

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9780817305680
Published: July 1992

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This is the first volume comprehensively to explore the dynamics of political interest groups in the twelve southern states – the types of group, lobbyists and lobbying tactics, state regulation of lobbying activity, and the power they exert in the individual states. The authors bring a new dimension to the study of southern politics, which traditionally has emphasized electoral politics and the politics of race, and their work underscores the pivotal, and at times controlling, role played by interest groups.

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Preface

1. Understanding Interest Group Activity in Southern State Politics - Clive S. Thomas

Part I: The Peripheral South

2. Kentucky: Adapting to the Independent Legislature - Malcolm E. Jewell and Penny M. Miller

3. Tennessee: New Challenges for the Farm, Liquor, and Big Business Lobbies - David H. Folz and Patricia K. Freeman

4. Virginia: A New Look for the "Political Museum Piece" - John T. Whelan

5. North Carolina: Interest Groups in a State in Transition - Jack D. Fleer

6. Florida: The Changing Patterns of Power - Anne E. Kelley and Ella L. Taylor

7. Texas: The Transformation from Personal to Informational Lobbying - Keith E. Hamm and Charles W. Wiggins

8. Arkansas: The Politics of Inequality - Arthur English and John J. Carroll

Part II: The Deep South

9. South Carolina: The Rise of the New South - Robert E. Botsch

10. Georgia: Business as Usual - Eleanor C. Main, Lee Epstein, and Debra L. Elovich

11. Alabama: Personalities and Factionalism - David L. Martin

12. Mississippi: An Expanding Array of Interests - Thomas H. Handy

13. Louisiana: The Final Throes of Freewheeling Ways? - Charles J. Barrilleaux and Charles D. Hadley

Part III: Conclusion

14. Change, Transition, and Growth in Southern Interest Group Politics - Ronald J. Hrebenar

Notes

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Ronald J. Hrebenar is professor of political science at the University of Kentucky and coauthor of The Legislative Process in the U.S. (4th ed.) and The Kentucky Legislature.

Clive S. Thomas is professor of political science at the University of Alaska, Juneau, whose latest publication is Politics and Public Policy in the Contemporary American West (1991).

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