Unit Three Lesson Eight Government

Any organized group whose members share a common goal and promote their interests by influencing government policy making

• platform

• Political party

• Interest group

• Public policy

Organized effort to influence the policy by persuading public officials to favor or oppose action on a specific issue

• Interest grooup

• Lobbying

• Pluralism

• Platform

A political party’s statement of principles and objectives

• Platform

• Pluralism

• Interest group

• Political action group

The idea that political power should be distributed and shared among various groups in a society

• Public policy

• Platform

• Pluralism

• Pluralism

An organization that raises and distributes funds to candidates running for office.

• political action committee

• Platform

• Pluralism

• Public policy

A plan or course of action initiated by government to achieve a stated goal

• Public interest

• Platform

• Two-party system

• Public policy

An organization that seeks to achieve power by electing its members to public office

• Public policy

• Political party

• Interest group

• Pluralism

A political system in which two parties dominate the electoral process and control the government

• Interest group

• Political action committee

• Two-party system

• Lobbyist

A political party is an organization that

• announces legislative proposals to the Supreme Court.

• raises and distributes funds to candidates running for office.

• Aims for political power by electing its members to public office.

• uses grassroots campaigning to promote their specific political goals.

At national party conventions, delegates make platforms. A platform is

• An announcement of potential candidates.

• A plan of how to win elections.

• A list of issues with opposing political parties.

• An outline of a political party's objectives.