An organization of people with shared policy goals entering the policy process at several points to try to achieve those goals. Interest groups pursue their goals in many arenas.

A theory of government and politics emphasizing that many groups, each pressing for its preferred policies, compete and counterbalance one another in the political marketplace.

A theory of government and politics contending that an upper-class elite will hold most of the power and thus in effect run the government.

A theory of government and politics contending that groups are so strong that government, seeking to please them all, is thereby weakened.

Subgovernments are composed of interest group leaders interested in a particular policy; they exercise a great deal of control over specific policy areas.

All the people who might be interest group members because they share some common interest.

The people in the potential group who actually join.

Something of value that cannot be withheld from a potential group member.

For a group, the problem of people not joining because they can benefit from the group’s activities without joining.

Goods that a group can restrict to those who actually join.

Groups that have a narrow interest, tend to dislike compromise, and often draw membership from people new to politics.

According to Lester Milbrath, a “communication, by someone other than a citizen acting on his or her own behalf, directed to a governmental decision maker with the hope of influencing his or her decision.”

Direct group involvement in the electoral process, for example, by helping to fund campaigns, getting members to work for candidates, and forming political action committees.

A provision found in some collective bargaining agreements requiring all employees of a business to join the union within a short period, usually 30 days, and to remain members as a condition of employment.

A state law forbidding requirements that workers must join a union to hold their jobs. State right-to-work laws were specifically permitted by the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947.

public interest lobbies

According to Jeffrey Berry, organi- zations that seek “a collective good, the achievement of which will not selectively and materially benefit the membership or activists of the organization.”

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Ch 10 Vocab Interest

AP Gov

Question	Answer
interest group	An organization of people with shared policy goals entering the policy process at several points to try to achieve those goals. Interest groups pursue their goals in many arenas.
pluralism	A theory of government and politics emphasizing that many groups, each pressing for its preferred policies, compete and counterbalance one another in the political marketplace.
elitism	A theory of government and politics contending that an upper-class elite will hold most of the power and thus in effect run the government.
hyperpluralism	A theory of government and politics contending that groups are so strong that government, seeking to please them all, is thereby weakened.
iron triangle	Subgovernments are composed of interest group leaders interested in a particular policy; they exercise a great deal of control over specific policy areas.
potential group	All the people who might be interest group members because they share some common interest.
actual group	The people in the potential group who actually join.
collective good	Something of value that cannot be withheld from a potential group member.
free-rider problem	For a group, the problem of people not joining because they can benefit from the group’s activities without joining.
selective benefits	Goods that a group can restrict to those who actually join.
single-issue group	Groups that have a narrow interest, tend to dislike compromise, and often draw membership from people new to politics.
lobbying	According to Lester Milbrath, a “communication, by someone other than a citizen acting on his or her own behalf, directed to a governmental decision maker with the hope of influencing his or her decision.”
electioneering	Direct group involvement in the electoral process, for example, by helping to fund campaigns, getting members to work for candidates, and forming political action committees.
union shop	A provision found in some collective bargaining agreements requiring all employees of a business to join the union within a short period, usually 30 days, and to remain members as a condition of employment.
right-to-work laws	A state law forbidding requirements that workers must join a union to hold their jobs. State right-to-work laws were specifically permitted by the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947.
public interest lobbies	According to Jeffrey Berry, organi- zations that seek “a collective good, the achievement of which will not selectively and materially benefit the membership or activists of the organization.”

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