Suchergebnisse

6 p. A typed document incorporating the Oregon Student Public Interest Group (OSPIRG), including names of the first Board of Directors and the registering agent.

7 p. A typed draft of proposed by-laws for the Oregon Student Public Interest Research Group (OSPIRG).

1 p. A typed letter from University of Oregon President Robert D. Clark, dated Mar. 1, 1971, to Mrs. Clara Huggins. The letter responds to Huggins' concerns about the Oregon Student Public Research Interest Group.

1 p. A typed letter from University of Oregon President Robert D. Clark, stamped Mar. 30, 1971, to Mrs. Anita B. Hale, regarding her concerns about funding of the Oregon Student Public Interest Research Group (OSPIRG).

1 p. A typed draft of a letter with handwritten notation from University of Oregon President Robert D. Clark, stamped Mar. 19, 1971, to James A. Larpenteur, Jr. The letter responds to Larpenteur's concerns about the funding of the Oregon Student Public Interest Research Group.

1 p. A typed draft of a letter with hand-written corrections from University of Oregon President Robert D. Clark, stamped Mar. 19, 1971, to Francis J. Ivancie, Commissioner, Dept. of Public Affairs, Portland, Or. The letter responds to a statement by Ivancie regarding the Oregon Student Public Interest Research Group.

2 p. A typed letter from the Young Americans for Freedom (YAF), signed by James C. Casterline, YAF Northwest Regional Representative, with a few handwirtten markings and a stamp by the President's Office dated May 3, 1971. The letter seeks funds to combat left-wing and violent activity on Oregon campuses.

A group theory of American politics was one of the earliest and remains one of the most systematic schemes for studying the political system. The analysis of pressure groups has contributed to our understanding of the many patterns of interaction by which the individual is related to politics in addi tion to his intermittent role as voter. Nevertheless, the litera ture of political groups has been highly critical. Systematic research is needed to build a working theory of how the member sees his several group relations, how group leaders are and may be held to account, and what the consequences of pressure poli tics are for coherence, continuity, and precision of public policy. Comparative studies of interests in different political systems today promise important advances in interest-group theory.

In Basic Interests: The Importance of Groups in Politics and in Political Science (1998), Frank Baumgartner and Beth Leech characterized a series of problems in the interest group research published between 1950 and 1995. In this article, we assess whether recent research has become more theoretically coherent, more attentive to context, and broader in both scope and topical focus, all of which are crucial to advancing the systematic study of interest groups and their policy-making activities. Overall, we observe more large-scale and longitudinal studies between 1996 and 2011 than Baumgartner & Leech observed between 1950 and 1995. This newer literature also is much more likely to focus on key issues for students of politics, and to give attention to the context in which organizations operate to affect public policy. However, we see minimal evidence that scholars addressing similar questions within the subfield are operating from one or a few shared theoretical frameworks. Adapted from the source document.

4 p. A typewritten statement by President Robert D. Clark to board members regarding the University's policy of neutrality in a labor boycott of certain lettuce growers. Clark discusses the nuances of the subject and encourages the university to stay out of partisan issues, while allowing for individual students and faculty to choose to be politically or social active.