Pressure Politics in New York

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Excerpt from Pressure Politics in New York: A Study of Group Representation Before the LegislatureIN Spite of the ever growing sphere of federal activity, the state governments still possess a tremendous sweep of legislative and executive power, which is directed toward many more variegated and diverse objectives than is the power of the central government itself. In no state is this fact more fully illustrated than in the State of New York. For the most part the specific application of this power is the resultant of the play of political, social, and economic forces, sometimes organized in the form of political parties, more often, in the form of pressure groups.Nowhere, in consequence, is it more appropriate to study the con¿ict of these groups which dominate so large a part of our legislative development than it is in the Empire State.These interest groups take their rise from a variety of elements which make the complex of forces in New York State typical of those at play in the larger industrial states of the Union, even though in certain particulars they may be unique to New York. The most significant grow out of the sharp cleavages in the state itself. In broad outline these cleavages are based on certain fundamental divisions, most in¿uential among these are the differences between the rural and urban parts of the state, between capital and labor, and between the various nationalities, races, and religions which go to make up the heterogeneous population both of the metropolitan area and of the state itself.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.