Pressure Groups and Political parties

What is another term for “interest group?”

• Pressure group

• Lobbyists

• Special group

• None of the above

What is the function of an interest group?

• To make people interested participating in civic life

• To compete with political parties

• To control government by getting its members elected to office

• To influence government policy and elections

What term describes an interest group providing information to a public official by face-to-face interpersonal communication?

• Malfeasance

• Graft

• Lobbying

• All the above

What are the two main categories of interest groups?

• Professional lobbyists and lobbyist hobbyists

• Liberal and conservative

• Economic and non-economic

• Principled and pragmatic

The Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, which includes foreign automobile manufacturers, (previously known as the American Automobile Manufacturer Association) would fit in what category of interest groups?

• An organized interest

• An economic interest group

• A special interest

• All the above

What term describes interests groups that coalesce into a larger interest group?

• An organized interest

• A special interest

• All the above

• None of the above

What issue is raised by single-issue interest groups (SIIGs) concerning democracy in America?

• SIIGs enhance the democratic process by melding into the agendas of political parties

• SIIGs polarize the electorate making compromise and good politics extremely difficult

• SIIGs are funded mostly by foreign influences that undermine American democracy

• All the above

What term is used to describe when an interest group, legislator, and bureaucrat work together to form public policy on an issue?

• The Iron Pyramid

• The Iron Circle

• The Washington Martini

• The Iron Triangle

What do interest groups use to influence courts?

• Certiorari writs

• Amicus briefs

• Mandamus briefs

• All the above

What term describes when an interest group becomes so powerful that its leaders begin to work in their own self-interest to broker wealth and power instead of working in the interest of the general membership?

• Iron Law of Oligarchy

• Iron Triangle

• Golden Law of Elitism

• None of the above