Andrew S. McFarland

Professor
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley 1966

Phone: 312-413-3776
Fax: 312-413-0440
E-Mail: amcfarla@uic.edu

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Fields of Interest:
Interest Groups, Public Policy, Social Movements

Selected Publications:
Power and Leadership in Pluralist Systems, (Stanford University Press, 1969).

Public Interest Lobbies: Decision Making on Energy, (American Enterprise Institute, 1976).

Common Cause: Lobbying in the Public Interest, Chatham House, 1984.

Cooperative Pluralism: The National Coal Policy Experiment, (University of Kansas Press, 1993).

Co-edited Social Movements and American Political Institutions, a book of original papers, with Anne Costain, University of Colorado (Rowman and Littlefield, 1997).

Neopluralism:  The Evolution of Political Process Theory, University Press of Kansas (Lawrence, KS, April 2004)

Current Research Areas:
New forms of political participation:  civic reform, transnational networks, political consumerism

Selected Activities and Honors:
Grants: Ford Foundation, Russell Sage Foundation, UIC Humanities Institute, Social Science Research Council, National Science Foundation. Research Staff, U.S. President's Commission for a National Agenda for the Eighties, 1980-81.