Explores the need for political science to pay more attention to complex interactions involving politically relevant groups. Distinguished contributors report on data from around the world and at different levels of political decision making – from 'below the radar' in local communities to global negations at the World Trade Organization.

About the Author

FRANK R. BAUMGARTNER Richard J. Richardson Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA SHAUN BEVAN Research Associate in the Institute for Political and Economic Governance, University of Manchester, UK JAN BEYERS Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Antwerp, Belgium CAELESTA BRAUN-POPPELAARS Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Political Science of the University of Antwerp, Belgium JAN W. VAN DETH Professor of Political Science and International Comparative Social Research at the University of Mannheim, Germany JAMIE GREENAN graduated with a Masters in Sociology from Aberdeen University in 2004 and subsequently gained a Masters in Social Research in 2005 also from Aberdeen DARREN HALPIN Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Aarhus University, Denmark MARCEL HANEGRAAFF PhD student at the department of Political Science of the University of Antwerp, Belgium GRANT JORDAN Emeritus Professor, University of Aberdeen, UK DAVID LOWERY Bruce R. Miller and Dean D. LaVigne Professor of Political Science at Pennsylvania State University, USA WILLIAM MALONEY Professor of Politics, Newcastle University, UK IAIN MACLEO Researcher at the Institute for Management, Governance and Society (IMaGeS) at Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, UK JOHN D. MCCARTHY Professor and Head of the Department of Sociology at the Pennsylvania State University, USA JOHN MOHAN Professor of Social Policy, University of Southampton, UK and Deputy Director of the Third Sector Research Centre PETER MUNK CHRISTIANSEN Professor of Political Science at the Department of Political Science, Aarhus University, Denmark ANTHONY NOWNES Professor of Political Science at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA KAY LEHMAN SCHLOZMAN J. Joseph Moakley Endowed Professor of Political Science at Boston College, USA