Linking Citizens to Government: Interest Group Politics at Common Cause

Lawrence Rothenberg examines some of the most elusive aspects of interest group operations through an in-depth study of one of the largest interest groups in Washington, Common Cause. In developing what might be called a membership theory, he asks such questions as: why do members join a group? Who stays and who leaves and why? What is the nature of the relationships among the activists, the group leaders and the rank-and-file members? How do these relationships shape the lobbying policies of the group? How is the lobbying impact of a group related to the nature of its membership?Lawrence S. Rothenberg is the author of 'Linking Citizens to Government: Interest Group Politics at Common Cause', published 1992 under ISBN 9780521415606 and ISBN 0521415608.