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• Provides an understanding of the role of lobbyists and interest groups in the American system, including the tools that produce successful influence in American politics and those that don’t.
• Probes deeper into the real behaviors, motivations, and tactics of the new advocacy world to help debunk many myths and improve public understanding of lobbying. 
• Demonstrates the limits of lobbying and why money or other resources don’t always translate to political power or influence. 

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

2. Foundations of Lobbying

3. The New Advocacy Industry–Growth and Institutionalization in the Lobbying World

4. Governmental Growth and the Advocacy Industry

5. Partisanship and the Advocacy Industry

6. Lobbying in a Hyper Media Age

7. The New Lobbying Toolbox

8. Lobbying and Strategic Choices

9. Lobbying Reconsidered

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