1. Introduction : the changing nature of interest group politics / Burdett A. Loomis and Allan J. Cigler --
2. Groups, social capital, and democratic orientations / Allan J. Cigler and Mark Joslyn --
3. The National Rifle Association in the face of the Clinton challenge / Kelly D. Patterson and Matthew M. Singer --
4. Collective entrepreneurialism and breast cancer advocacy / Maureen Casamayou --
5. Just another tool? : how environmental groups use the Internet / Christopher J. Bosso and Michael Thomas Collins --
6. Interest group money in elections / M. Margaret Conway, Joanne Connor Green, and Marian Currinder --
7. Campaigning outside the law : interest groups issue advocacy / Diana Dwyre --
8. A distant thunder? : religious mobilization in the 2000 elections / James L. Guth, Lyman A. Kellstedt, John C. Green, and Corwin E. Smidt --
9. Interests, lobbying, and the U.S. Congress : past as prologue / Burdett A. Loomis --
10. What corporations really want from government : the public provision of private goods / R. Kenneth Godwin and Barry J. Seldon --
11. Corporate lobbyists as political actors : a view from the field / Rogan Kersh --
12. Lobbying the press : "Talk to the people who talk to America" / Clyde Brown and Herbert Waltzer --
13. Organized interests and issue definition in policy debates / Beth L. Leech, Frank R. Baumgarner, Jeffrey M. Berry, Marie Hojnacki, and David C. Kimball --
14. High-tech learns to play the Washington game : the political education of Bill Gates and other nerds / David M. Hart --
15. Exchange theory and the institutional impetus for interest group formation / William P. Browne --
16. Interest groups and gridlock / Jeffrey M. Berry --
17. Cracks in the armor? : interest groups and foreign policy / Eric M. Uslaner --
18. Always involved, rarely central : organized interests in American politics / Allan J. Cigler and Burdett A. Loomis.
