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• Acknowledgements(p. ix)
• Chapter I pressure Groups And policy-Making(p. 1)
• Part I Theory(p. 13)
• Chapter 2 pluralism, Corporatism And Marxism Traditional Approaches to State/Group Relations(p. 45)
• Chapter 3 State Autonomy And policy Networks Reconceptualising State/Group Relations(p. 73)
• Chapter 4 Social Change, Ideology And pressure Groups How policy Networks Change(p. 96)
• Part II Case Studies(p. 99)
• Chapter 5 Agricultural policy The paradigm policy Community(p. 131)
• Chapter 6 Business and public policy The problem of Business policy Networks(p. 159)
• Chapter 7 professional power The Doctors and Health policy(p. 163)
• Chapter 9 pressure Groups, policy Networks and the State(p. 233)
• Bibliography(p. 236)
• Index(p. 257)

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CHOICE Review

Smith has written a sophisticated revision of standard interest-group theory. Where conventional analysis is based on pluralist, corporatist, or Marxist models, the author employs concepts such as policy networks and state-group interactions to provide a more complete and balanced picture of what transpires in the everyday policy process in Britain and the US. Using case studies from a range of sectors--business, health, agriculture, and consumer policy--the analysis indicates that the resources that groups bring to bear are less significant than a variety of previously overlooked factors. The most important of these are the types of relationships that exist between groups and government and simply the manner in which policy is made and the types of policy networks that develop. The study serves to underline the highly complex nature of the policy process in both countries under consideration and why simplistic explanations typically have little connection to empirical reality. Of interest to advanced students of public policy, comparative, and British and American politics. Graduate; faculty; practitioner.