The Changing Pressure Community

This chapter examines the evolution of the Washington pressure community, assessing changes in the number and distribution of active organizations over a twenty-five-year span. Of special concern is whether these patterns—in particular, the strong representation of business interests in contrast to the economic interests of less economically advantaged—are unique to a 2001 analysis or are a persistent aspect of organized interest representation in Washington. The chapter reveals how most of the organizations new to the pressure community are not organizations that never existed before; rather, they are organizations that have been outside of politics and, for reasons that are less well studied, are activated into politics. Thus the shape of the pressure community is influenced by a number of factors—of which an important one, but far from the only one, is the set of processes by which new political organizations come into being.

Keywords: pressure community, Washington pressure community, business interests, economic interests, organized interest representation, political organizations

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Kay Lehman Schlozman, Sidney Verba, and Henry E. Brady

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The Changing Pressure Community

The Changing Pressure Community

Kay Lehman Schlozman

Sidney Verba

Henry E. Brady