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Ch9 PoliticalScience
Chapter Nine
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Citizen's (non economic) groups | (A category of interest groups) Members are joined together not by a material incentive -- jobs, higher wages, or profits-- but by a purpose incentive, the satisfaction of contributing to what they regard as a worthy goal or purpose. |
| Collective (Public) goods | Goods that belong to all; they cannot be granted or withheld on an individual basis. (Most non-economic groups offer these as incentive for membership) |
| Private (Indv) goods | A benefit such as a job that is given directly to a particular individual. (It can be held back) |
| Grassroots Lobbying | pressure designed to convince government officials that group's policy position has popular support.(an specialty of the AARP) |
| Outside Lobbying | Involves bringing constituency ("outside") pressure to bear on policymakers. |
| Interest group | (Also called a "faction", "pressure group", "special interest", or "organized interest") Can be defined as any organization that actively seeks to influence public policy. |
| Interest-group Liberalism | Describes the tendency of officials to support the policy demands of the interest group or groups that have a special stake in a policy. |
| Iron Triangle | consists of a small and informal but relatively stable set of bureaucrats, legislators, and lobbyists who seek to develop policies beneficial to a particular interest. |
| Issue Network | An informal grouping of officials, lobbyist, and policy specialists (the "network") who come together temporarily around a policy problem ("the issue") -- AD HOC -- |
| Lobbying | refers broadly to the efforts by groups to influence public policy through contact with public officials. |
| Political Action Committees | What a groups election contributions are funneled through. ( A group cannot give money directly to the candidate they have to do it though PACS) |
| Single-Issue Lobbying | NRA only care (lobby) for one issue |
| Economic groups | Represent tangible gain (money)-- I.E Business groups (Focus on specific industries)... labor groups (more service/public workers than labor)... Farm groups and Professional groups. |
| Citizen groups | A cause to believe in -- I.E [Groups based on social groupings (NAACP/AARP) Old people/ Black People] ... Single-issue groups (Green Peace) ... Ideological groups (NWF) |
| Ad-hoc | "For this purpose" |
| Madisonian Dilemma | We have to be free to pursue our self-interest |
| Theodore Lowe's belief | Collective interest dies when groups control policy. |
| litigation | primary means of lobbying for the American Civil Liberties Union |
| Most political action committees represent | business groups. |
| wrote that "Liberty is to faction what air is to fire." | James Madison |
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