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This paper argues that interests have consequences in so far as they provide actors with reasons for action, and that actors may find reasons for action in interests they ascribe to themselves and in interests they ascribe to others. This argument undermines many of the ways in which concepts of interests have traditionally been used in social and political analysis. Section I is an introductory discussion of the uses of concepts of interests in political analysis. Section II discusses the place of interests in the explanation of action and Section III discusses connections between interests and actors' social location. A brief conclusion summarises the main arguments of the two central sections.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART ONE APPROACHES TO INTEREST GROUPS -- 1 The Rediscovery of Interest Group Politics -- 2 A Deliberative Theory of Interest Representation -- 3 Interest Groups and the Policymaking Process: Sources of Countervailing Power in America -- 4 American Interest Groups in Comparative Perspective -- PART TWO THE ORGANIZATION OF INTERESTS -- 5 Interest Group Membership and Organization: Multiple Theories -- 6 Triangles, Networks, and Hollow Cores: The Complex Geometry of Washington Interest Representation -- 7 Changing Patterns of Interest Group Activity: A Regional Perspective -- 8 The Political Mobilization of Business -- PART THREE POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS AND INTEREST GROUPS -- 9 Organized Interests and the Nation's Capitol -- 10 Interest Mobilization and the Presidency -- 11 Representing the Public Interest: Consumer Groups and the Presidency -- 12 Conservative Interest Group Litigation in the Reagan Era and Beyond -- PART FOUR INTEREST GROUP ACTIVITY AND INFLUENCE -- 13 Social Movements as Interest Groups: The Case of the Women's Movement -- 14 Money, Technology, and Political Interests: The Direct Marketing of Politics -- 15 The Rise and Fall of Special Interest Politics -- PART FIVE LOOKING AHEAD -- 16 The Future of an Interest Group Society -- Appendix: The Changing State of Interest Group Research -- References -- About the Book and Editor -- About the Contributors -- Index

Abstract: The 2001 Cape Town Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment, with the Aircraft Equipment Protocol, is a major new convention which is designed to provide greatly enhanced security for financiers and lessors of aircraft objects, railway rolling stock and space property such as satellites. While previous conventions have provided a uniform conflict of laws rule they do not address the problem of major differences between legal systems, particularly in their attitude to the recognition and enforcement of security interests. The Convention's solution to these problems is radical and imaginative; it is no less than the creation of a wholly sui generis international interest which derives its force from the Convention, not from national law, which is perfected by registration in an International Registry and which upon registration is accorded priority over subsequently registered interests and unregistered interests and is given protection in the event of the debtor's insolvency. This paper, after describing the sphere of application of the Convention, analyses the nature of the international interest for which it provides and the relationship between that interest and interests arising under national law.