This edited collection of original, commissioned essays tells the important story of how interest groups and PACs from business, labor, and other activist organizations have worked with the changing rules governing lobbying and the "sea change" provided by the Republican Revolution in 1994 to try to achieve their particular goals. Containing a wealth of information that simply is not available anywhere else, After the Revolution will serve a variety of purposes in different courses where students need to understand how Congress and interest groups have interacted, how the current system works, and how certain changes might affect these relationships in the future.

1. From Wall Street to Main Street: The National Federation of Independent Business and the New Republican Majority, Ronald G. Shaiko and Marc A. Wallace.

2. Working to Keep a Pro-Business Congress, Candice J. Nelson and Robert Biersack.

3. The Doctor's Lobby, Michael Gusmano.

4. Political Firepower: The National Rifle Association, Kelly D. Patterson.

5. Building to Win, Building to Last: AFL-CIO Cope Takes on the Republican Congress, Robin Gerber.

6. Still Bringing Home the Bacon: The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, Marni Ezra.

7. The Sierra Club Political Committee, David Cantor.

8. League of Conservation Voters, Phillip A. Mundo.

9. NARAL PAC: Battling for Women's Reproductive Rights, Sue Thomas.

10. The Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund Comes of Age: Reflections on the 1996 Elections, Craig A. Rimmerman.

11. AT &
T PAC: The Perils of Pragmatism, Robert E. Mutch.

12. The Realtors' Political Action Committee: Covering All Contingencies, Anne H. Bedlington.

13. WISH LIST: Pro-Choice Women in the Republican Congress, Mark J. Rozell.

14. Revolutionary Change or More of the Same? PAC's, Lobbies, and the Republican Congress, Paul S. Herrnson and Clyde Wilcox.