| Acknowledgements | 第6-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-8页 |
| Abstract | 第8页 |
| Introduction | 第12-22页 |
| Chapter One Interest Groups in American Politics | 第22-36页 |
| 1.1 Definition and Categorization | 第22-25页 |
| 1.2. Major Theories on Lobbying and Interest Group Politics | 第25-27页 |
| 1.2.1 Pluralism | 第25-26页 |
| 1.2.2 Elitism | 第26页 |
| 1.2.3 Institutionalism | 第26-27页 |
| 1.3 Strategies of Interest Groups | 第27-36页 |
| 1.3.1 Direct Lobbying | 第27-30页 |
| 1.3.2 Electoral Lobbying | 第30-33页 |
| 1.3.3 Indirect Lobbying | 第33-36页 |
| Chapter Two History of the U.S. Healthcare System and Reform | 第36-43页 |
| 2.1 Institutionalization and Evolution of a System | 第38-39页 |
| 2.2 Medicare and Medicaid: A Step Forward | 第39-40页 |
| 2.3 HMOs and the Rise of Managed Care | 第40-41页 |
| 2.4 The Obama Health Reform: A Landmark Accomplishment | 第41-43页 |
| Chapter Three The American Medical Association: History, Organizational Structure, and Ideology | 第43-48页 |
| 3.1 The AMA: a Brief History | 第43-44页 |
| 3.2 The Organizational Structure of the AMA | 第44-46页 |
| 3.3 The Political Ideology of the AMA | 第46-48页 |
| Chapter Four The AMA's Interaction with U.S. Healthcare Policymaking: Chronic Politics from FDR to Barack Obama | 第48-71页 |
| 4.1 1930s-1940s: The AMA‘s Objections to Health Reform during the FDR Era | 第48-54页 |
| 4.1.1 The Compromise of the Social Security Act of 1935 | 第49-51页 |
| 4.1.2 The AMA‘s Objections to the Wagner Bill | 第51-54页 |
| 4.2 1940s-1950s:The AMA‘s Campaigns against President Truman‘s National Health Insurance | 第54-57页 |
| 4.3 1950s-1960s: The AMA and the Struggle of Medicare and Medicaid | 第57-62页 |
| 4.4 1970s: The AMA and Nixon‘s National Health Insurance Proposal | 第62-65页 |
| 4.5 1990s: The AMA and the Failure of Bill Clinton‘s Health Reform | 第65-68页 |
| 4.6 2000s-2010s: The AMA and the Enactment of the ACA | 第68-71页 |
| Chapter Five The Mechanism of the AMA's Influence on U.S. Health Care Policymaking | 第71-93页 |
| 5.1 The AMA's Position and Role in the U.S. Politics of Interest Groups | 第71-82页 |
| 5.1.1 The AMA's Relations with Relevant Interest Groups | 第71-77页 |
| 5.1.2 The AMA's Relations with U.S. Policymaking System | 第77-82页 |
| 5.2 The AMA‘s Strategies to Exert its Influence | 第82-88页 |
| 5.2.1 Direct Lobbying of the AMA | 第82-83页 |
| 5.2.2 Electoral Lobbying of the AMA | 第83-86页 |
| 5.2.3 Indirect Lobbying of the AMA | 第86-88页 |
| 5.3 The Effects of its Influence | 第88-93页 |
| Conclusion | 第93-96页 |
| References | 第96-104页 |
