Domestic influences in Foreign Policy 1

... coalition of people who share the same

interest in the outcome of some political issue and who organize themselves to try to influence the outcome.

... individuals assigned to talk with legislators or officials to influence their decisions

on some set of issues.

... often become interest groups concerned

about their ancestral nation outside the state.

... often use exchanges, embassies, and ceremonial visits to more a direct form of lobbying on behalf of the foreign governments' interests.

... spend money on lobbying and contribute to election campaigns because they lack other forms of

influence such as mobilizing members, appealing to constituents, or inspiring

grassroots activism.

... a system of government in which most of

the important decisions are taken by state officials rather

than by elected representatives.

... means a court, department, institution,

office, board, council or other unit of state government

located in the legislative, judicial, or executive

... an official in a government department, in

particular one perceived as being concerned with

procedural correctness at the expense of people's needs.

The most common foreign policy bureaucracies maintained by the state are: