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 an interest group do?

• Works at Congress
• Imitates Government
• Influences Government
• The Unspeakable

A strategy by which organized interests seek to influence the passage of legislation by exerting direct pressure on members of the legislature.

• Hyperpluralist thoery
• Lobbying
• Olson's Law of Large Groups
• Pluralist theory

Unlike political parties, interest groups concern themselves with which one of the following:

• nominating candidates

• winning elections

• many issues

• one particular issue one particular issue

Concerned with a wide range of issues

• political parties

• interest groups

Concerned with one particular issue.

• political parties

• interest groups

The job of this interest group is to raise money

• 501 (c) (3)

• electioneering

• PAC

• 501 (c) (4)

• Bandwagon
• Slogan
• Testimonial
• Glittering Generalities

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• Bandwagon
• Slogan
• Transfer
• Name Calling

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• Name Calling
• Card Stacking
• Glittering Generalities
• Testimonial

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