Ronald T. Libby

Eco-Wars

Political Campaigns and Social Movements

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Can grassroots interest groups ever win the wars they wage in the political arena against big business in America? This book asserts that viable strategies are available to environmental, food safety, animal rights, and gun control organizations that seek to challenge business interests in the political arena.

Produktdetails

• Power, Conflict, and Democracy: American Politics Into the 21st Century
• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. März 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 153mm x 229mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 376g
• ISBN-13: 9780231113113
• ISBN-10: 0231113110
• Artikelnr.: 22438979

Autorenporträt

Ronald T. Libby is professor of political science at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville and the author of five books including Protecting Markets: U.S. Policy and the World Grain Trade and The Politics of Economic Power in Southern Africa.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Expressive Interest Groups
2. The Antibiotechnology Campaign: Farmers Food Safety Groups, and Drug
Companies
3. The Animal Rights Campaign: Agribusiness and Animal Rights Groups
4. The "Big Green" Campaign: Hollywood and the Chemical Industry
5. The Secondhand Smoke Campaign: Antismoking Groups and the Philip Morris
Company
6. The Endangered Species Campaign: Property Rights Advocates and
Environmental Groups
7. Conclusion