Representing Interests and Interest Group Representation

Interest groups and other “group concepts” of politics dominated explanations of American government and policy-making in the 1950s and early 1960s and, as filtered through the concept of pluralism, have provided what is arguably the most lasting and perhaps the most persuasive theorizing on political decision-making in the United States. Representing Interests and Interest Group Representation explores both the strengths and weaknesses of the current research on interest groups. It points to what needs to be done, the major intellectual concerns that should guide the research, and some of the more productive ways to approach the significant research questions.https://ideaexchange.uakron.edu/representing_interests/1000/thumbnail.jp

Prospectus, December 17, 1987

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MFA13 (MFA 2013)

Catalogue of a culminating student exhibition held at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, May 3-July 29, 2013. Contents include Introduction / Buzz Spector -- The collaborative turn : new models of thinking, making, and learning / Patricia Olynyk -- [Introduction] / David Schuman -- Lyndon Barrois, Jr. / Rickey Laurentiis -- Sarah Bernhardt -- Shifting Shanghais / Hsuan Ying Chen -- Serhii Chrucky / JaNae Contag -- JaNae Contag / Emily Hanson -- Carrie DeBacker / Gabriel Feldman -- Erin M. Duhigg -- José Garza / Serhii Chrucky -- Eric Gray / Ariel Lewis -- Meghan Allynn Johnson : to or towards / Blair Allyn Johnson -- Hoa Le / Maria Xia -- Christine Eunji Lee -- Lavar Munroe : the black superhero when everyone was looking for the scapegoat / Patrick Johnson -- Jon A. Orosco : architectonics / Rickey Laurentiis -- Michael Powell / Nicholas Tamarkin -- Bridget A. Purcell : welcome home / Andy Chen -- Malahat Qureshi -- Natalie Rodgers / Katie McGinnis -- Carla Fisher Schwartz / Jennifer Padgett -- Zak Smoker -- Laurencia Strauss / Maura Pellettieri -- Lili Yang -- Vivian Zapata -- Contributors -- About the Sam Fox School.https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/books/1004/thumbnail.jp

Cross-Border Ties Among Protest Movements The Great Plains Connection

This paper examines the connections among political protest movements in twentieth century western Canada and the United States. Protest movements are social movements and related organizations, including political protest parties, with the objective of deliberately changing government programs and policies. Those changes may also entail altering the composition of the government or even its form. Social movements involve collective efforts to bring about change in ways that avoid or reject established belief systems or organizations. They begin with assessments of what is wrong and propose a blueprint for action to achieve new goals by drawing on committed supporters willing to take risks. Thus I hypothesize that protest movements, free from constraints of institutionalization, can readily cross national boundaries. Contacts between protest movements in Canada and the United States also stem from similarities between the two countries. Shared geography, a British heritage, democratic practices, and a multi-ethnic population often give rise to similar problems.1 Similarities in the northern tier of the United States to the adjoining sections of Canada\u27s western provinces are especially prominent. People in this area have all been relatively dependent on resources, either for extraction or initial processing.2 Consequently, they have strong ties to a world economy and strong reactions to the same kinds of economic problems. They also share an immigrant heritage that ties them to countries beyond the British Isles. With the closing of the US frontier, population movement into Canada, and later, back into the United States, enhanced what Marcus Hansen has called the mingling of the Canadian and American peoples. 3 All these factors contribute to what some political scientists and geographers believe to be a borderland -a geographic area straddling two political jurisdictions that displays unique or blended characteristics.4 Blended or not, there is still evidence that these are areas with distinct regional cultures.5 One can then expect that common problems will lead to common solutions, regardless of political boundaries. I concentrate here on the states of North Dakota, Minnesota, and Wisconsin and the provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta. The time frame is virtually all of the twentieth century. Contacts are divided into three substantive areas. The first deals with agriculture and the concerns of farmers. The second focuses on industry and the concerns of workers. The third raises issues of identity relating to race, ethnicity, gender, or more general lifestyle concerns. Although not an exhaustive inventory, it highlights prominent events and contacts. Accounts of contact emphasize chronology and the direction they travel. Because I expect that cross-border contacts among protest movements will be associated with times of shared problems, I do not anticipate that they are any more likely to originate in one country than in the other