What are the challenges facing public interest groups as a result of their transformation from the small, grassroots groups of the 1960s into the large, professionalized, multi-billion dollar industry of the '90s? How might public interest groups meet these challenges as they move into the next century? Focusing on national environmental organizations, including Sierra Club, National Wildlife Federation, The Wilderness Society, and Environmental Defense Fund, Voices and Echoes for the Environment demonstrates how the demands of organizational maintenance encroach on the goal of effective policy influence.
Price: $36.00
Pages: 300
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Series: Power, Conflict, and Democracy: American Politics Into the 21st Century
Publication Date:
11 August 1999
ISBN: 9780231113557
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / National, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Affairs & Administration, SCIENCE / Environmental Science (see also Chemistry / Environmental)
An insightful analysis of the 1990's mainstream environmental movement viewed as organizations and businesses.
Ronald G. Shaiko is associate professor of government in the School of Public Affairs at American University, where he is also the founder and academic director of the Lobbying Institute in the Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies. He is currently serving as a Democracy Fellow in the Center for Democracy and Governance at the United States Agency for International Development.
1. Voices and Echoes in the Public Interest Marketplace: The Development of the Public Interest Sector
2. From Social Movement to Public Interest Organizations: The Organizational Transformation of Environmentalism in the United States
3. Growing Pains: Leadership Challenges in Contemporary Environmental Organizations
4. Membership Recruitment and Retention: Direct Mail, Telemarketing, and Canvassing
5. It's Not Easy Being Green: Leadership Incentives and Membership Motivations
6. The Heart of the Matter: Leadership-Membership Connections
7. Organizational Leadership and Grassroots Empowerment: Reinvigorating Public Interest Representation in the United States
Appendix A. Public Interest Organizations
Appendix B. Operationalization of Variables, chapter 5
Appendix C. Validity and Reliability, chapter 5
Appendix D. Specific and General Policy Issues Presented in 1977--1978 Communications
Appendix E. Operationalization of Variables, chapter 6
