Question | Answer |
filling a lawsuit-often used by interest grops when they are unsatisfied with getting congressional action on their behalf | Litigation |
friend of the court briefs filed by interest groups to inform the court of their postion and to state how their welfare would be affected by a ruling | amicus curiae briefs |
a technique used by interest groups allowing people to combine grievances into a single lawsuit | class action lawsuits |
something of value which cannot be withheld from individuals in the potential group | collective good |
helping sympathetic candidates get into office | electioneering |
aruges that because only a few groups have enough power to influence policy,power is concentrated into a few interlocking power centers | elite theory |
occurs when potential members decide not to join a group,rather sit back and let other people do the work | free-rider problem |
argues that too many groups are getting what they want at the expense of the unrepresented | hyperpluralist theory |
organization where people with similar policy goals enter the political process to achieve those goals | interest group |
communicating vy someone other than a citizenacting on his behalf,directed to a governmental decision-maker with hopes of influencing his decision | lobbying |
the larger the group, the more serious the free-rider program | olson's law of large groups |
arues that interest group activities provide additional repres | pluralist theory |
a legal means for groups to participate in electios by contributing money | potential group |
group composed of all people who share some common interrest and who might be become group members | Public interrest lobbies |
organiztions which seek a collective good which does not only benefit their membership | right to work laws |
a law which outlaws union membership as a condition of employment | selective benefits |
these benefits are goods that a group can restrict to those who are members | single issue group |
iron triangles- interset group leaders,gov't agency personnel and members of congressional committees who work for each other at the publi's expense. | subgovernments |
requires new employees to join the union where one has been granted bargaining rights | union shop |
the government's excessive deference to groups-group demands are legitimate and government's job is to advance them all | interest groups |
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