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  • The Vulnerability Thesis: Interest Group Influence and Institutional Design

    by Lorelei Moosbrugger ...
    Where politics is dominated by two large parties, as in the United States, politicians should be relatively immune to the influence of small groups. Yet narrow interest groups often win private benefits against majority preferences and at great public expense. Why? The “vulnerability thesis” is that the electoral system is largely to blame, making politicians in two-party systems more vulnerable ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • The Vulnerability Thesis: Interest Group Influence and Institutional Design

    by Lorelei Moosbrugger ...
    Where politics is dominated by two large parties, as in the United States, politicians should be relatively immune to the influence of small groups. Yet narrow interest groups often win private benefits against majority preferences and at great public expense. Why? The “vulnerability thesis” is that the electoral system is largely to blame, making politicians in two-party systems more vulnerable ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

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  • Progressivism

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  • Deepening Local Democracy in Latin America

    Participation, Decentralization, and the Left

    by Benjamin Goldfrank ...
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  • Rural Protest and the Making of Democracy in Mexico, 1968–2000

    by Dolores Trevizo ...
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  • The Europeanization of National Political Parties

    Power and Organizational Adaptation

    Edited by Thomas Poguntke, Nicholas Aylott, Elisabeth Carter, Robert Ladrech, Kurt Richard Luther ...
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  • Challenges of Party-Building in Latin America

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  • The Organization of Political Interest Groups

    Designing advocacy

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