Advocacy Groups

Author:   Lisa Young ,  Joanna Everitt
Publisher:   University of British Columbia Press
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9780774811101


Pages:   188
Publication Date:   02 November 2004
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Lisa Young ,  Joanna Everitt
Publisher:   University of British Columbia Press
Imprint:   University of British Columbia Press
Weight:   0.340kg
ISBN:  

9780774811101


ISBN 10:   0774811102
Pages:   188
Publication Date:   02 November 2004
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Tables Foreword Acknowledgments 1 Advocacy Groups and Canadian Democracy 2 Perspectives on Advocacy Groups and Democracy 3 Who Participates in Advocacy Groups? 4 The Internal Life of Groups 5 Which Interests and Identities Are Mobilized? 6 Talking to Governments 7 Advocacy Group Involvement in Elections, Litigation, and Protests 8 Who Prevails? 9 Enhancing the Democratic Role of Advocacy Groups Discussion Questions Additional Reading Works Cited Index

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Both as individual books, as well as the state goals of the Canadian Democratic Audit series, the analyses achieve what they set out to do. It is heartening to see that the state of politics is taken seriously, that there are difficult questions asked, systemic weaknesses are pointed out, and that these authors have the capacity to recommend what it is that might work better to develop a more inclusive and participatory democratic system. These books succeed in that they are moving into a territory that has a broad scope in challenging issues and institutions that set the stage for the major political categories of analysis ... -- Robert Imre, University of Notre Dame, Australia * Political Studies Review, vol. 4, no 2, May 2006 *


Both as individual books, as well as the state goals of the Canadian Democratic Audit series, the analyses achieve what they set out to do. It is heartening to see that the state of politics is taken seriously, that there are difficult questions asked, systemic weaknesses are pointed out, and that these authors have the capacity to recommend what it is that might work better to develop a more inclusive and participatory democratic system. These books succeed in that they are moving into a territory that has a broad scope in challenging issues and institutions that set the stage for the major political categories of analysis ... -- Robert Imre, University of Notre Dame, Australia Political Studies Review, vol. 4, no 2, May 2006


Author Information

Lisa Young is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Calgary. Joanna Everitt is associate professor in the Department of History and Politics at the University of New Brunswick, Saint John.

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