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A generation ago, scholars saw interest groups as the single most important element in the American political system. Today, political scientists are more likely to see groups as a marginal influence compared to institutions such as Congress, the presidency, and the judiciary. Frank Baumgartner and Beth Leech show that scholars have veered from one extreme to another not because of changes in the political system, but because of changes in political science. They review hundreds of books and articles about interest groups from the 1940s to today; examine the methodological and conceptual...

During the 2008 election season, politicians from both sides of the aisle promised to rid government of lobbyists undue influence. For the authors of Lobbying and Policy Change, the most extensive study ever done on the topic, these promises ring hollow not because politicians fail to keep them but because lobbies are far less influential than political rhetoric suggests.
Based on a comprehensive examination of ninety-eight issues, this volume demonstrates that sixty percent of recent lobbying campaigns failed to change policy despite millions of dollars spent trying. Why? The...

When "Agendas and Instability in American Politics" appeared fifteen years ago, offering a profoundly original account of how policy issues rise and fall on the national agenda, the "Journal of Politics" predicted that it would "become a landmark study of public policy making and American politics." That prediction proved true and, in this long-awaited second edition, Bryan Jones and Frank Baumgartner refine their influential argument and expand it to illuminate the workings of democracies beyond the United States.
The authors retain all the substance of their contention that...

Dieses Lehrbuch richtet sich an Studierende der Sportwissenschaft und der Psychologie, aber auch an alle, die an den wissenschaftlichen Grundlagen der Sportpsychologie interessiert sind. Es fuhrt in verstandlicher und ansprechender Form in die grundlegenden Fragestellungen und Themen der Sportpsychologie ein, stellt die Antworten aus der aktuellen Forschung in kompakter Form dar und weist beispielhaft auf Anwendungen fur die Sportpraxis hin.

Die Sportpsychologie beschaftigt sich prinzipiell mit dem menschlichem Erleben und Verhalten in sportlichen Situationen und daher mit...