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Washington, DC - Lobbyists and interest groups are often cast as the villains in the U.S. political process. Although there is an occasional mention of the money spent to lobby and the number of lobbyists, most of the negative press is based on anecdotes and not on actual data. Now CQ Press has published the new Vital Statistics on Interest Groups and Lobbying, an alternative approach to understanding the importance of lobbying to the U.S. political process.

London - SAGE, one of the world’s leading independent academic and professional publishers, today reported strong performance and continued growth across its journals portfolio in the Journal Citation Reports® (JCR) Thomson Reuters, 2015.

Ahead of an important election year, many are turning to political data for insight on the American political system—data that is vast and at times, complex. SAGE today announces the release of Vital Statistics on American Politics 2015-2016, containing easy-to-understand, statistical data about many topics in American politics in one volume. The text is updated with information from hundreds of sources and is written for students, professional researchers and interested citizens wanting to learn about a broad spectrum of United States politics and policies.