Interest Groups for Final Exam Review

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

The main “positive” associated with Interest Groups is:

• Influence the making of public policy.

• Affecting a Broad Range of Issues

• Winning Elections

• Nominating Candidates Nominating Candidates

The NRA is an example of an Interest Group used in class. What topic does the NRA promote

• abortion

• guns

• healthcare

• welfare

M.A.D.D

• alcohol

• gun advocates

• healthcare

• teachers union

Concerned with a wide range of issues

• political parties

• interest groups

Concerned with one particular issue.

• political parties

• interest groups

Interested in winning elections.

• political parties

• interest groups