Voices and Echoes for the Environment: Public Interest Representation in the 1990s and Beyond

Ronald G. Shaiko

Paper, 300 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-11355-7
$31.00 / £18.00

September, 1999
Cloth, 300 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-11354-0
$78.00 / £46.00

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

Related Subjects

• American Politics

Series

• Power, Conflict, and Democracy: American Politics Into the 21st Century

About the Author

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.

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