Interest Groups (ch 11)
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- Insider strategy
- lobbyists working closely with a few key members of congress, meeting them privately to exchange information and sometimes favors
- Outsider strategy
- plan increasingly used by lobbyists with advent of modern technology and employing grassroots lobbying
- ratings
- an assessment of a representatives voting record on issues important to an interest group
- revolving-door influence
- the practice of lobbying officals with such promises as employment after their government service
- political incentive
- a valued benefit obtained by joining a political organization on behalf of an interest group
- issue public
- the part of the public that is directly affected by or deeply concerned with a governmental policy
- political cues
- a signal to a member of congress that identifies which values are at stake in a vote
- direct mail
- the solicitation of funding through letter campaigns
- "dirty dozen"
- a list compiled by an enviornmental interest group, of those legistlators who voted most frequently against its measures
- grassroots support
- backing for a public poliucy that arises or is created in public opinion.
- A corporate lobbyist would LEAST likely to have an informal discussion about a pending policy matter with which of the following
- a federal judge in whose court a case important to the corporation is being heard
- interest groups and political parties both promote US democracy by
- linking citizens to the political process
- to be effective, purposive membership organizations count on
- keeping issues in the spotlight
- organizations that attract members by appealing to a coherent set of usually controversial principles are called
- ideaological interest groups
- Nader founded a group called
- Public citizen
- according to the text, one of the important activities of public interest law firms is to
- bring suiots on behalf of persons harmed by some public or private policy
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which of the following is not a liberal public interest law firm
a. criminal justice legal foundation
b. american civil liberties union
c. NAACP Legal Defense & Education fund
d. womens legal defense fund
e. natural resources - a. criminal justice legal foundation
- Which of the following form an "iron triangle"
- bureaucratic office, congressional commitee, interest group
- Which of the following factors best accounts for the rise of interest groups and the decline of political parties in recent years?
- Interest groups are better able to articulate specific policy positions than are political parties
- An interest group would likely have the greatest infleuence on policy matters involving
- narrow issues, only a few interest groups and technical information
- Members of the AARP are most likely to have joined because of _____ incentives
- Material
- An example of an ideaological interest group is
- the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)
- All of the following represent large shifts in the history of interest groups except
- 1900-1910 Growth of professional interst groups
- A major decline of union membership in the US was an
- decline in public support for unions
- propbably the most effective commodity at the command of an interst group is
- information