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This definitive book on how to lobby on Capitol Hill provides a practical, common-sense guide to the fundamentals of this profession. Lobbying Congress serves as both a handbook for professional lobbyists and as a general introduction to Congress and the legislative process.

Airing ten weeks after the Sandy Hook massacre, this program examines the power of the National Rifle Association to block gun control legislation and examines the gun culture in rural America that gives it a constituency and the rhetoric the NRA uses. It shows how the NRA enforces loyalty to its agenda by defeating politicians who go against it.

NRA: Money, Firepower & Fear tells why the National Rifle Association is the most powerful and feared lobby in America. It has tens of millions of dollars, millions of well-armed members and influence at the highest levels of government. Sugarmann, a leading expert on firearms violence, gun control and the NRA, is nationally recognized as an innovative and insightful voice in America's gun control debate. This is the first in-depth account of how...

"At the forefront of research and practice in public affairs, this handbook draws upon the expertise of leading figures in the field to provide a comprehensive overview of a huge growth area in the strategic thinking of organizations." "The Handbook of Public Affairs is an essential resource for students and academics in public affairs, business and management, communications, policy, politics and media, as well as CEOs, association executives, politicians,...

Discusses how interest groups have influenced American politics and explains how they can help control the outcome of political elections, including the presidential race.

Information and influence campaigns are a particularly cogent example of the broader phenomenon we now term strategic political communication. If we think of political communication as encompassing the creation, distribution, control, use, processing and effects of information as a political resource, then we can characterize strategic political communication as the purposeful management of such information to achieve a stated objective based on the...

"If you think liberalism is dead, think again. In this sure-to-be-controversial new book, Jeffrey M. Berry argues that modern liberalism is not only still alive, it's actually thriving. Today's new liberalism has evolved from a traditional emphasis on bread-and-butter economic issues to a form he calls "postmaterialism"--Quality-of-life concerns such as enhancing the environment, protecting consumers, or promoting civil rights." "Berry concludes that...

A Harvard Law professor explains how being influenced by money overshadows the will of the people in the political arena regardless of party lines and offers strategies to take back the democracy from those with moneyed or corporate interests.

FRONTLINE investigates how the NRA uses its unrivaled political power to stop gun regulation in America. With first-hand accounts of school killings in Newtown and Columbine, and the shooting of Congresswoman Gabby Giffords, Gunned Down examines why despite the national trauma over gun violence Washington hasn't acted.