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show Organizations of people sharing a common interest; interest groups (lobbies) make policy-related appeals to the government  
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show Individuals, organizations, or offices representing other interest group organizations; they are generally not open to broad public membership (e.g. Amazon, Ford, the NFL)  
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show organizations open to public membership that allow members to gather to engage in civil or political action (e.g. AARP, ACLU, NAACP, National Rifle Association)  
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show benefits for both interest group members and non-members  
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Public-interest groups   show
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show when people reap the benefits of interest group action but without participating in the group  
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show material, informational, solidary, and purposive, Material incentives: money,Informational incentives: benefits for an individual to spread knowledge,Solidary incentives: social rewards,Purposive incentives: character benefits gained from serving a cause  
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show interest group activity that involves influencing legislators to either approve or reject bills by providing them with specialist information  
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show interest group activity that involves establishing close relationships with legislators and public officials; it highlights the “revolving door” in politics, when legislators and public officials leave office to become lobbyists (and vice versa)  
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Litigation   show
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Electoral interest group processes   show
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show interest group activities that include organizing and/or supporting protests, marches, boycotts, and civil disobedience (e.g. strikes, pickets, sit-ins, disruptions)  
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show Sociologist who proposed the theory of elitism in his 1956 book The Power Elite  
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Robert Dahl   show
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show Political scientist who described the concept of interest-group liberalism in his 1969 book The End of Liberalism, Lowi argued that interest-group liberalism has largely resulted in the general public being shut out of governemnt since the 1930s  
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