APG 11 Interest Grps
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| 1. What do you call an organization with certain policy goals that seeks to reach them through the political process? | show 🗑
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| show | 4. Interest group
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| 5. What did James Madison believe caused societies to create factions? | show 🗑
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| show | 8. Increase the number and variety of groups (factions)
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| show | 10. 1960s
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| 11. What led to the growth in the number of interest groups in the 1960s? | show 🗑
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| 13. What are the two periods in US history when interest groups rapidly expanded? | show 🗑
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| 15. Why did mass-membership unions form when they did? | show 🗑
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| 17. What led to the launching of the Chamber of Commerce? | show 🗑
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| 19. What did the creation of antislavery organizations in the 1830s and 1840s rely on? | show 🗑
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| 21. What are some of the reasons interest groups are so common in the United States? | show 🗑
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| show | 24. Changing economics, government policies, leadership
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| show | 26. Congress, the Courts, the Presidency, the Bureaucracy, State Government, and the Public
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| 27. Do most interest groups focus on purely economic interests? | show 🗑
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| show | 30. Political Parties have to run candidates for office and they have to appeal to most everyone to succeed.
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| 31. Are Americans more likely or less likely to join religious or political associations than citizens of other countries and why? | show 🗑
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| show | 34. In countries with multiparty proportional representation systems like in Europe.
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| 35. What percentage of the vote does a party have to win to get seats in the legislature in a European-style proportional representation system? | show 🗑
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| show | 38. In Europe
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| 39. Where have farmers had success with their own political parties? | show 🗑
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| 41. What environmental political parties have had far more success in Europe than in the U.S.? | show 🗑
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| 43. What are some examples of American environmental groups? | show 🗑
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| show | 46. Pluralist theory
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| 47. What two movements support the pluralist theory of the impact of interest groups? | show 🗑
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| 49. Why do Pluralists argue that interest groups do not lead to dysfunction? | show 🗑
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| 51. How do pluralists defend lobbying? | show 🗑
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| show | 54. Elite theory
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| 55. What political theory argues that interest groups do not play by the rules? | show 🗑
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| show | 58. They cooperate in interlocking directorates
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| show | 60. Corporations
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| show | 62. For all the people
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| 63. What idea holds that most interest group demands are legitimate and that it is the government’s job to advance those demands? | show 🗑
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| 65. What theorists criticize interest group liberalism the most? | show 🗑
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| show | 68. Trying to please every group means a confusing increase in agencies, regulations, and programs while pushing spending increases
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| 69. What faction supports interest group liberalism? | show 🗑
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| show | 72. Hyperpluralists
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| show | 74. Political self-interest
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| 75. What are the three parts of a subgovernment? | show 🗑
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| 77. If an interest group or coalition of interest groups have captured the agency and congressional committee and have monopoly control over the policy area, what is that called? | show 🗑
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| show | 80. Issue network
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| show | 82. Hyperpluralists
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| show | 84. Confusing and contradictory policy
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| 85. What do you call the people who share a common interest in policy? | show 🗑
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| 87. What is the tendency for some potential group members to choose not to join an interest group because they know they will receive the benefits of the interest groups’ activities anyway? | show 🗑
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| 89. What is true of most people who agree with the goals of a mass-membership (large) interest group? | show 🗑
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| 91. What are reasons people join interest groups? | show 🗑
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| show | 94. Money and benefits
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| show | 96. Opportunities for companionship and fun
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| 97. What are purposive incentives? | show 🗑
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| 99. What sort of incentive would have the greatest difficulty in raising funds? | show 🗑
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| 101. What are some ways for interest groups to raise funds? | show 🗑
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| 103. What percentage of contacts does direct mail need to give donations to succeed? | show 🗑
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| show | 106. Interest groups commonly share mailing lists
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| show | 108. Higher income people
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| show | 110. About 50%
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| 111. Why do most people fail to join mass-membership interest groups? | show 🗑
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| 113. Why do people join the PTA? | show 🗑
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| 115. What is a major function of local chapters of a national membership? | show 🗑
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| show | 118. Material incentives (money and benefits)
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| show | 120. Material incentive
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| show | 122. A collective good
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| show | 124. Olson’s Law of Large Groups
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| show | 126. Olson’s Law of Large Groups
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| show | 128. Consumer groups like the National Consumer League
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| 129. What are the obstacles for large groups? | show 🗑
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| 131. What is an advantage for small groups making it easier to organize and activate members? | show 🗑
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| 133. What are two groups with extremely large potential membership? | show 🗑
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| show | 136. Single-issue interest groups
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| show | 138. Intensity
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| show | 140. Abortion
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| 141. How many groups were listed in the Encyclopedia of Associations in the year 2000? | show 🗑
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| 143. Where do most interest groups have their headquarters? | show 🗑
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| 145. Almost every interest group has: | show 🗑
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| 147. What has happened to the level of diversity in interest groups over the last few decades? | show 🗑
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| 149. What do we call communication between a person on the behalf of others directed to a government decision maker, usually in the legislative or executive branch, with the hope of influencing policy? | show 🗑
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| show | 152. Information
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| show | 154. Legislators can’t be experts on everything
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| 155. What happens to a lobby if it lies to a legislator? | show 🗑
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| show | 158. electioneering, litigation, lobbying
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| show | 160. Obtain group support for reelecting Congressmember, provide info on specialized policy areas, advice on political strategy, organizational help, help accomplishing legislative goals
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| show | 162. Full-time employees and consultants
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| show | 164. Helping a politician to win an election
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| 165. What is the least effective thing a lobbyist could try to do with a Congress member? | show 🗑
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| 167. When does lobbying work best? | show 🗑
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| 169. Why do interest groups come up with legislator rankings to show their level of commitment to issues the interest groups hold important? | show 🗑
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| show | 172. A list of 12 legislators who were most against environmental protection reform
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| 173. What does an interest group hope to do with public opinion polls? | show 🗑
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| 175. How can interest groups use newspapers to influence legislators? | show 🗑
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| show | 178. Yes
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| show | 180. 33%
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| 181. What does most PAC money go to, year in year out? | show 🗑
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| 183. What part of what an interest group does do PACs concern themselves with? | show 🗑
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| show | 186. PACs
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| 187. Why do interest groups give most of their money to incumbents? | show 🗑
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| show | 190. Give money to an incumbent and a challenger
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| 191. How often do we find politicians who have had nothing to do with PACs? | show 🗑
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| show | 194. They believe candidates should not accept money from PACs
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| show | 196. Litigation
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| 197. What are written arguments given to the courts in support of one side of a case by groups or individuals who are not before the court? | show 🗑
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| 199. What does amicus curiae mean? | show 🗑
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| 201. What enables a group of plaintiffs with similar grievances or problems combine into a single lawsuit? | show 🗑
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| show | 204. The requirement to be unmarried
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| 205. What do interest group do when they “go public”? | show 🗑
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| 207. How does the United States government affect the economy? | show 🗑
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| 209. What do economic interest groups focus on? | show 🗑
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| show | 212. Business groups
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| 213. What was the peak of the union movement in the United States? | show 🗑
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| show | 216. About 20%
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| 217. What percentage of workers are union today? | show 🗑
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| show | 220. A decline in public support for unions
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| show | 222. Union shop
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| 223. What do right-to-work laws outlaw? | show 🗑
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| show | 226. National Business Council and Congress of Industrial Organizations
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| show | 228. Business PACs
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| show | 230. 1970 (first Earth Day)
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| 231. Why does Big Business not always get what it wants? | show 🗑
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| show | 234. Public interest groups
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| 235. What has been the most obvious success of the Environmental Movement? | show 🗑
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| show | 238. Free-rider problem
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| 239. When did the number of public interest groups see significant growth? | show 🗑
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| show | 242. Ideological groups
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| 243. What is the oldest, largest African American interest group that has fought for African American equality? | show 🗑
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| show | 246. Fair Share Program
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| 247. Besides segregation and discrimination, what have civil rights groups focused on? | show 🗑
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| 249. What is required for a successful social movement? | show 🗑
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| show | 252. Individual laws to protect women’s rights
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| show | 254. Ralph Nader
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| 255. What kind of interest group is Common Cause? | show 🗑
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| 257. What do public interest law firms do? | show 🗑
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| 259. What are some conservative public interest law firms? | show 🗑
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| 261. What are some liberal public interest law firms? | show 🗑
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| 263. What impact has increased lobbying had on interest groups according to Robert Salisbury? | show 🗑
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| 265. What is the relationship between interest groups and the scope (size) of government? | show 🗑
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| show | 268. The Wine lobby, the tobacco industry, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
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| 269. What do we call the tendency of a departing government official to join a firm in which he had close ties to while in government? | show 🗑
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| 271. What does the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 restrict or require? | show 🗑
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| 273. What amendment protects interest group activity? | show 🗑
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