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Interest Groups 11
| 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. |
| Pluralist Theory | A theory enphasizing that politics is mainly a competition among groups, each one pressing for its own preferred policies. |
| Elite Theory | A theory contending that societies are divided along class lines and that an upper class elite will rule. |
| Hyperpluralist Theory | A theory contending that groups are so strong that government is weakened. |
| Subgovernments | A netowrk of groups within the American political system that exercise a great deal of control over specific policy ares. |
| Potential Group | All the people who might be interest group members because they share some common interest. |
| Actual Group | The part of the potential group consisting of members who actually join. |
| Collective Good | Something of value that cannot be withheld from a group member. |
| Free-Rider Problem | Problem faced when people do not join because they can benefit from the group's activities without actually joining. |
| Olson's Law of Large Groups | Principle by Mancur Olson stating "thel arger the group, the further it will fall short of providing an optimal amount of a collective good." |
| Selective Benefits | Goods that a group can restrict to those who pay their annual dues. |
| Single Issue Groups | Groups that have a narrow interest, tend to dislike compromise, and often draw memberwhip from people new to politics. |
| Lobbying | Communication by someone other than a citizen acting on own behalf directed to a gov't decision maker to influence a decision. |
| Electioneering | Aiding candidates financially and getting group members out to support them. |
| Political Action Committees | Political funding vehicles created by 1974 campaign finance reforms, PACs are used by interest groups to donate money to candidates. |
| Amicus Curiae | Briefs submitted by a “friend of the court” to raise additional points of view and present information not contained in the briefs of the formal parties. |
| Class Action Suits | lawsuits permit a small number of people to sue on behalf of all other people similar situated. |
| Union Shop | Provision found in some collective bargaining agreements requiring all employees of a busniess to join the union within a short period. |
| Right to Work Laws | State law forbidding requirements that workers must join a union to hold their jobs. Permitted by Taft Harley Act of 1947. |
| Public Interest Lobbies | Organizations that seek "a collective good,the achievment that will not selectively and materially benefit the membership of the organization" |
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