The Public-Interest Movement and the American Reform Tradition
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4977595 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Vogel (0000-0001-6657-0602, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1980 |
| Volume | 95 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 607-627 |
| Publication date | 1980-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Political Science Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0032-3195 • E-ISSN: 1538-165X |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2150607 |
| OpenAlex | W2317658868 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 21 |
Beginning in the late sixties, a new force emerged in American politics: the public-interest movement. An important part of this movement consisted of a wide variety of law firms, research centers, lobbying groups, membership associations, and community organizations committed to public policies that attempted to reduce the power and privileges of business. By any measure, their impact has been impressive: throughout most of the 1970s, the relationship between regulatory and corporate officials was more strained than at any time since the 1930s. In sharp contrast to the quarter-century following World War II, the most vocal criticisms of government regulation since the late sixties have come from businessmen -not their critics. ' Public-interest activism succeeded in significantly narrowing the boundaries of managerial discretion; many corporate abuses were reduced and those that continue are now less likely to go unchallenged.2 In sum, public-interest groups are to the last decade what the trade-union movement was to the thirties and the muckrakers were to the Progressive era: the driving force behind increased restrictions on corporate prerogatives. At first glance, this political phenomenon appears to represent another example of American interest-group pluralism. Pluralists never argued that self
Aesthetics · Art · Movement (music) · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Public interest · Reform movement · Sociology · Law · Political Influence and Corporate Strategies · Public Administration
Electricity Deregulation
State Legislators' Perceptions of Business and Labor Interests
Structuring Administrative Discretion
Business‐government relations in Canada
Some Explanations for Disparities in Lifesaving Investments 1
Modernity and the Contingency of the Public
Industrial Concentration, Sectional Competition, and Antitrust Politics in America, 1880–1980
You Alone Have the Answer”
The Sixties' False Dawn
Class struggle in campaign finance? Political action committee contributions in the 1984 elections
Public Involvement in Administration
Regulation as a political question
Public-Interest Institutionalism
Business and State Economic Development
Explaining Cross-National Variations of Two Anti-Nuclear Movements
What Accent the Heavenly Chorus? Political Equality and the American Pressure System
Regulation and Regime
Public Interest Groups in France and the United States
Neopluralism
The Power of Business in America
Corporate Pacs for a New Pax Americana
| Unique citing works | 21 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,48 |
| Citation span | 1982 - 2014 (33) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 17 |