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The 2010 campaign and election was pivotal: the Republican takeover of the House, the advent of "super PACs," and record-breaking sums spent on a midterm election. More than ever before, interest groups were able to mobilize new resources and new technologies in a shifting set of House and Senate races. This timely volume explores—in a series of lively case studies—a cross-section of groups, communities, and networks that vividly illustrates the "unleashing" of interest group activity in the electoral process in response to Citizens United and other court cases and events.

Paul S. Herrnson is director of the Center for American Politics and Citizenship, professor of of Government and Politics, and distinguished scholar-teacher at the University of Maryland. He has published several books, including Congressional Elections: Campaigning at Home and in Washington, The Financiers of Congressional Elections, and Voting Technology: The Not-so-Simple Act of Casting a Ballot. Dr. Herrnson has received several teaching awards, and has served as an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow and President of the Southern Political Science Association. He is currently President of the APSA Organized Section on Political Organizations and Parties.

Christopher J. Deering is professor of political science at The George Washington University. He is co-author of Committees in Congress (1984, 1990, and 1997) and editor of Congressional Politics (1989). He also has written a number of articles and chapters on congressional leadership, committees, legislative careers, executive-legislative relations, and on Congress′s role in foreign and national security policymaking. He has served on the editorial boards for Legislative Studies Quarterly and Congress & the Presidency, served as a Brookings Institution Research Fellow, and also as an APSA Congressional Fellow.

Clyde Wilcox is professor of government at Georgetown University. He has published a number of books and articles on campaign finance, interest groups, religion and politics, gender politics, public opinion, and science fiction and politics. He is coauthor of The Interest Group Society and Interest Groups in American Elections: The New Face of Electioneering. He has served as an expert witness in federal cases about campaign finance, and lectured about American elections in a number of countries. He is conducting research on the environmental attitudes of fish off the reefs in Bonaire.