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APG 11 Interest Grps

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show 2. Interest group  
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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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show 18. New government policy  
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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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show 28. No  
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29. What are two things Political Parties have to do that Interest Groups don’t have to do?   show
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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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33. When is an interest group more likely to form its own political party?   show
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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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37. Where are interests groups more like parties?   show
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39. Where have farmers had success with their own political parties?   show
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show 42. Green parties  
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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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show 50. No one interest group becomes too dominant. They play by the rules. Different groups win at different times. They link public desires to government.  
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51. How do pluralists defend lobbying?   show
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53. What political theory argues that only a few groups really have power and most others are insignificant?   show
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show 56. Elite theory  
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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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show 64. Interest group liberalism  
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show 66. Hyperpluralists  
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67. What is a popular argument against interest group liberalism?   show
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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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83. What kind of policy do hyperpluralists argue is created by interest group liberalism, the existence of subgovernments?   show
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85. What do you call the people who share a common interest in policy?   show
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show 88. Free-rider problem  
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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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show 92. Material incentives, solidary incentives, purposive incentives  
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show 94. Money and benefits  
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95. What are solidary incentives?   show
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show 98. The desire for advancing some political goal based on a sense of what should be  
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show 100. Purposive incentive  
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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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105. Why do individuals who have given to interest groups often get called on by other interest groups?   show
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107. What kind of people are more likely to form interest groups?   show
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109. What percentage of interest groups in Washington D.C. represent corporations?   show
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show 112. They don’t think it will make a difference if they join.  
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113. Why do people join the PTA?   show
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show 116. Raise membership and money  
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117. What incentives would most likely cause someone to join a farm bureau (farming interest group)?   show
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show 120. Material incentive  
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121. What do you call something of value that benefits both actual members and potential members of a group, for example, clean air?   show
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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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127. What is a class of interest groups that suffer significantly due to Olson’s Law of Large Groups?   show
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129. What are the obstacles for large groups?   show
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show 132. There is more at stake for a small group  
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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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137. What is an advantage single-issue interest groups often have?   show
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show 140. Abortion  
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show 142. Over 20,000  
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show 144. Washington D.C.  
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145. Almost every interest group has:   show
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show 148. Increased greatly  
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show 150. Lobbying  
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show 152. Information  
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153. Why do Legislators rely on interest groups for information?   show
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show 156. It loses influence  
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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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163. What is electioneering?   show
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show 166. Try to convert them to the lobbyist’s position  
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show 168. When the politician already agree with the interest group  
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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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show 174. Develop strategy and/or show public support for their issue to influence legislators  
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175. How can interest groups use newspapers to influence legislators?   show
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177. Can a Congressmember start a PAC?   show
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show 180. 33%  
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show 182. Incumbents  
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183. What part of what an interest group does do PACs concern themselves with?   show
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185. What is a legal way for interest groups to funnel money into a politician’s campaign?   show
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show 188. Incumbents are more likely to win.  
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show 190. Give money to an incumbent and a challenger  
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show 192. Very rare; only a handful  
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193. What do Steve Sovern’s LASTPAC and Common Cause agree on?   show
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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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show 202. Class action lawsuit  
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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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show 210. Prices, profits, wages  
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show 212. Business groups  
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show 214. 1945  
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show 216. About 20%  
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show 218. About 11%  
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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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show 224. Union shops; union membership as a condition of employment  
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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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229. When did Environmental Groups see a sharp increase in growth?   show
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231. Why does Big Business not always get what it wants?   show
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233. What kind of interest groups seek collective goods, goods that benefit almost everyone, mostly nonmembers?   show
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235. What has been the most obvious success of the Environmental Movement?   show
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237. What is the biggest problem for consumer groups and other public interest groups?   show
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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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245. What is the name of the NAACP’s effort to get businesses to increase the use of minorities as employees and for contracts   show
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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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253. What policy entrepreneur was the main founder of the consumer rights movement, creating over a dozen interest groups in the mid-1960s?   show
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show 256. A public interest group  
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show 258. Bring lawsuits against a public or private policy, file amicus curiae briefs  
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show 260. Atlantic Legal Foundation, Criminal Justice Legal Foundation, Landmark Legal Foundation  
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261. What are some liberal public interest law firms?   show
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show 264. Less influence overall for interest groups  
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show 266. Both encourage the increase of the other  
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show 268. The Wine lobby, the tobacco industry, U.S. Chamber of Commerce  
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show 270. Revolving door  
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show 272. No bribery, President has to disclose income from investments, no conflict of interest for officials when it comes to outside employment  
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show 274. First Amendment  
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