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A Comparative Study of Interest Groups and the Political Process

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2013

Gabriel A. Almond
Gabriel A. Almond
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Princeton University
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The first research planning session of the Committee on Comparative Politics of the Social Science Research Council was held on April 5–10, 1957 at the Center for Advanced Study of the Behavior Sciences at Stanford, California. The participants included some of the recipients of SSRC grants for field studies of political groups, as well as a number of other scholars planning field research on these problems. The purpose of the Committee in sponsoring planning sessions among its grantees and other interested scholars is to enhance the cumulative value of research efforts now under way or planned for the near future. As a result of the SSRC program, as well as of a number of other organized and individual efforts, we can anticipate in a few years an extensive monographic literature dealing with political groups and processes in a great many foreign countries and a variety of different culture areas. Systematic information on this scale may not only fill in “areas of ignorance,” but offers an opportunity for significant advances in the general theory of politics.

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Research Note
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American Political Science Review , Volume 52 , Issue 1 , March 1958 , pp. 270 - 282
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Copyright © American Political Science Association 1958

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1 The personnel of the session and the areas represented were as follows: France, Henry Ehrmann, University of Colorado; United Kingdom, Leon Epstein, University of Wisconsin; Germany, Sigmund Neumann, Wesleyan University and Gabriel A. Almond, Princeton University; Italy, Joseph La Palombara, Michigan State University; Belgium, Val Lorwin, University of Oregon; Spain, Juan Linz, University of California (Berkeley); Burma, Lucian W. Pye, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; India, Myron Weiner, University of Chicago; Latin America, George Blanksten, Northwestern University and Bryce Wood, Social Science Research Council.

2 Duverger, Maurice, Political Parties (New York, 1954), pp. 392–93Google Scholar.

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4 Pye, Lucian W., Guerrilla Communism in Malaya (Princeton, N. J., 1956), pp. 346 ff.Google Scholar

5 This discussion was led by Seymour M. Lipset of the University of California and Gabriel A. Almond, Princeton University.

6 The report on this topic was presented by Sigmund Neumann of Wesleyan University and Val Lorwin of the University of Oregon.

7 Kahin, , Pauker, , Pye, , “Comparative Politics of Non-Western Countries,” this Review (Dec., 1955), pp. 1022 ff.Google Scholar; Almond, Cole, Macridis, “A Suggested Research Strategy in Western European Government and Politics,” ibid., pp. 1042 ff.; Almond, , “Comparative Political Systems,” Journal of Politics (August, 1956), pp. 391 ff.Google Scholar; Francis X. Sutton, “Social Theory and Comparative Politics,” (unpublished paper); Beer, Samuel H., “Pressure Groups and Parties in Britain,” this Review (March, 1956), pp. 1 ff.Google Scholar; Rustow, Dankwart, Politics and Westernization in tht Near East, Center of International Studies, Princeton University, March, 1956Google Scholar; Rustow, , “New Horizons for Comparative Politics,” World Politics (July, 1957)Google Scholar; Neumann, Sigmund, “Comparative Politics, A Half Century Appraisal,” Journal of Politics (August, 1957)Google Scholar; Almond, Gabriel and Weiner, Myron, “A Comparative Approach to the Study of Political Groups,” Agenda Paper for the Dobbs Ferry Seminar of the Committee on Comparative Politics, June. 1956Google Scholar

8 See Rustow, Dankwart, “Scandinavia: Working Multiparty Systems,” in Neumann, Sigmund (Ed.), Modern Political Parties (Chicago, 1956), pp. 169 ff.Google Scholar

9 The report to the planning session on this topic was presented by Leon Epstein and Henry Ehrmann.

10 Ehrmann, Henry W., Organized Business in France (Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1957)Google Scholar, ch. V.

11 The report on this topic was presented by Juan Linz and Joseph La Palombara.

12 Reports on this problem were presented by Myron Weiner, Lucian Pye, George Blanksten and Bryce Wood.

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