Public Policy

What is an Interest Group?

• A group of people who share common goals and organize to influence government policy
• The ideas and attitudes that signifcant number of americans hold about government and political issues
• Technique which everyone in a group has equal chance of being selected
• A measurement of how much the sample results might differ from sample universe

What does it mean to lobby?

• A measurement of how much the sample results might differ from sample universe
• To persuade government officials to support the polices their interest group favors
• The ideas and attitudes that signifcant number of americans hold about government and political issues
• A group of people that is to be studied

What is a Public Interest Group?

• Authorization to act given to a representative
• Method of polling in which wording of questions "push" respondees towards a particular answer
• A small group of people who are typical of the larger group being studied
• Groups that seek policy goals that it believes will benefit the nation (general public) not just themselves

Which of these groups is not an interest group?

• AARP
• NRA
• Democratic Party
• NOW

Why do people join interest groups?

• Increase money
• Increase their size
• Increase influence
• Decrease strength

Interest groups concentrate on one issue

• true 
• false

_____________ is all the types of communication that can reach a large number of people.

• Newspapers
• News Channels
• Mass Media
• The Internet

When evaluating campaign speeches and literature you must be able to 

• separate fact from opinion
• identify propaganda
• detect bias
• all of these

One role of Mass Media in elections is 

• Emphasizing selected issues
• publishing gossip
• voting
• creating commercials

Government officials use the media to communicate with the public. 

• True
• False