The Organization Ecology of Interest Communities

1. An Introduction to the Population Ecology Approach
David Lowery, Virginia Gray

2. Organizational Demography Research in the United States
Anthony J. Nownes

3. Interest Organization Demography Research in Europe
Joost Berkhout

4. Toward a Population Ecology Approach to Transnational Advocacy? An Emerging Research Field
Jan Beyers, Marcel Hanegraaff

5. Challenges of Integrating Levels of Analysis in Interest Group Research
Thomas T. Holyoke

6. Organizational Populations: Professionalization, Maintenance and Democratic Delivery
William A. Maloney

7. Case Study Approaches to Studying Organization Survival and Adaptation
Christopher Witko

8. Lobbying as a Leveraged Act: On Resource Dependencies and Lobby Presence
Caelesta Braun

9. Louder Chorus — Same Accent: The Representation of Interests in Pressure Politics, 1981–2011
Kay Lehman Schlozman, Philip Edward Jones, Hye Young You, Traci Burch, Sidney Verba, Henry E. Brady

10. Interest Community Influence: A Neopluralist Perspective
Beth L. Leech

11. Population Dynamics and Representation
Frank R. Baumgartner, Kelsey Shoub

12. The Influence of Organization Ecology Research on Population Ecology of Interest Representation: Present Practices and Future Prospects
Darren R. Halpin

13. Beyond Metaphor: Populations and Groups, Interests, and Lobbyists
Burdett Loomis

14. The Future of Organization Ecology in Interest Representation
David Lowery, Darren R. Halpin, Virginia Gray

Keywords: Political Science and International Relations, Democracy, Comparative Politics, Political Theory, Political Communication, Public Policy, Political Science