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Fashions popular in the study of American politics are quickly transported-with modifications, of course-to the British scene.l Thus, the spurt of investigations into interest group activity in the United States2 was followed in the mid-fifties by several volumes and papers on British interest groups.3 The works of Harry Eckstein and Samuel H. Beer are undoubtedly the most theoretically oriented, analytically significant, and influential of these studies.4 It is primarily through the publications of