a11 Interest Groups
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- Insider Strategy
- lobbyists working closely with a few key members of congress, meeting them privatrely 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 officials 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 complied by an enviornmental interest group, of those legislators who voted most frequently against its measures
- grassroots support
- backing for a public policy that arises or is created in public opinion
- a corporate lobbyist would be 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 United States 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
- ideological parties
- Nader founded a group called
- Public Citizen
- according to the text, one of the important activities of public interest law firms is to
- bring suits on behalf of persons harmed by some public or private policy
- Which of the following is NOT a liberal public interest law firm
- criminal justice legal foundation
- Which of the following form an iron triangle?
- bureacratic office, congressional committee, 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 influence 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
- Material incentives
- An example of an ideological interest group is
- PETA
- All of the following represent large shifts in the history of interest groups except
- 1900-1910 - growth of professional interest groups
- A major decline of union membership in the US was an
- decline in support for unions
- Probably the most effective commodity at the command of interest groups is
- information