ABSTRACT
The term crowd lobbying refers to the lobbying organization tactic of circumspectly assembling large numbers of its grass-roots constituency at governmental centers to the purpose of promoting policy preferences in direct contact with officials. The ingenious innovation of crowd lobbying is the adroit and controlled manner in which a social unit associated with protest is, by careful management, shorn of its protest meanings and "smuggled" into the repertoire of diplomatic struggle. The simplest form of the overtly political crowd lobbies are isolated mobilizations operating with an "emergency" mentality. The well-organized, recurrent, and political heart of crowd lobbying is the annual assembly. The rise of interest groups is said to be concomitant with the decline of political parties and therefore the very capacity to forge coalitions of sufficient size, strength, and vision to govern effectively and justly. The rise of interest-group democracy might well be creating an impossibly pressing situation for, especially, elected leaders.
