Voices and Echoes for the Environment

Ronald G. Shaiko is associate professor of government in the School of Public Affairs at American University, where he is also the founder and academic director of the Lobbying Institute in the Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies. He is currently serving as a Democracy Fellow in the Center for Democracy and Governance at the United States Agency for International Development.

• 1. Voices and Echoes in the Public Interest Marketplace: The Development of the Public Interest Sector 2. From Social Movement to Public Interest Organizations: The Organizational Transformation of Environmentalism in the United States 3. Growing Pains: Leadership Challenges in Contemporary Environmental Organizations 4. Membership Recruitment and Retention: Direct Mail, Telemarketing, and Canvassing 5. It's Not Easy Being Green: Leadership Incentives and Membership Motivations 6. The Heart of the Matter: Leadership-Membership Connections 7. Organizational Leadership and Grassroots Empowerment: Reinvigorating Public Interest Representation in the United States Appendix A. Public Interest Organizations Appendix B. Operationalization of Variables, chapter 5 Appendix C. Validity and Reliability, chapter 5 Appendix D. Specific and General Policy Issues Presented in 1977--1978 Communications Appendix E. Operationalization of Variables, chapter 6

"An insightful analysis of the 1990's mainstream environmental movement viewed as organizations and businesses." -- Chice "Focusing on the Environmental Defense Fund and Environmental Action,... Voices and Echoes for the Environment examines the implications, especially for relations between leaders and rank and file, of the massive growth in membership and budgets since the 1960s... On the evidence of [this] book, the future for scholarship about the human dialogue with the rest of nature in the United States looks increasingly bright green." -- Peter A Coates, American Studies