ApGovernmentchapter14Ayasha.Hussain Flashcards
(AFL-CIO)
is the largest federation of unions in the United States. It is made up of fifty-five national and international unions, together representing more than 12 million active and retired workers.
sentence: The AFL-CIO has made up of fifty-five national and international unions.
American Anti-Slavery Society
was an abolitionist society founded by William Lloyd Garrison and Arthur Tappan. Frederick Douglass, an escaped slave, was a key leader of this society who often spoke at its meetings.
Sentence: He became an abolitionist in 1835, after seeing an antislavery meeting at Utica broken up by a mob.
american federation of labor(AFL)
an alliance of skilled workers in craft unions;
concentrated on bread-and-butter issues such as higher wages, shorter hours, and better working conditions
Sentence: The American Federation of Labor is a federal organization of labor unions.
Christian Coalition
in the 1990s, Pentecostal minister Pat Robertson began a political movement and launched this organization.
Sentence: Christian Coalition was a minister who began a positive movement.
Civic virtue
the willingness to do one’s part in supporting the public good, the willingness to do one’s part to combat corruption
Sentence: They must share an equal commitment to civic virtue in a democratic society.
Collective good
something of value (money, a tax write-off, prestige, clean air, and so on) that cannot be withheld from a group member
Sentence: The collective good of these five companies overruled any other competing interest,
disturbance theory
The theory that interest groups form in part to counteract the efforts of other groups.
sentence: The extent to which the disturbance spreads depends on the violence of the stimulation may be confined to a few leaflets or it may extend to all the leaves of the plant.
Economic interest theory
A group with the primary purpose of promoting the financial interests of its members
Sentence: In my opinion, the government is being huge Economic interest theory
free rider problem
the potential member fails to join a group because they can get the benefit, or collective good, sought by the group without contributing the effort.
Sentence: The free rider added nothing to the relationship so after a few months we had to remove him from our team.
House leadership and Open Government Act of 2007
is a law of the United States federal government that amended parts of the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995.
Sentence: The act of the open government is a law of the US to close the act.
Interest group
An organized group that tries to influence public policy
Sentence: So local governments and enterprises become an interest group.
Jerry Farwell
A Southern Baptist Minister who, in 1978, founded the conservative religious group the Moral Majority
Sentence: Jerry Farwell is someone who found the religious group
Lobbying
The activities of a group or organization that seeks to influence legislation and persuade political leaders to support the group’s position
sentence: By law, in Georgia, lobbying is a felony.
Lobbying Disclosure Act
A 1995 federal law that employed a strict definition of lobbyist and established strict reporting requirements on the activities of lobbyists
Sentence: Lobbying disclosure act is s strict reporting and their requirements
Lobbyist
Interest group representative who seeks to influence legislation that will benefit his or her organizations or client through political and/or financial persuasion
sentence : The lobbyist inovle the legislation that benefit his ornagizaations.
Marian Wright Edelman
A lawyer who in 1973 founded the Children’s Defense Fund to protect the rights of children, particularly those who are members of disadvantaged groups
sentence : Marian Wright Edelman was a lawywe who protected children and thier rights.
Moral Majority
A conservative religious interest group credited with helping to mobilize conservative Evangelical Christian voters from its founding in 1978 through the presidency of Ronald Reagan (1981-1989).
Sentence : Moral Majority was an religious interest group who helped christain voters.
National Association of Manufacturers (NAM)
An organization founded in 1895 by manufacturers to combat the growth of organized labor
Sentence: The NAM organizarion comabt the growth of labor.
National Rifle Association (NRA)
The major gun-rights lobbying group in the United States, which opposes gun control and advances an expansive interpretation of the Second Amendment
Sentence: The NRA opposed the gun control that advances an expansive.
Pat Robertson
A southern Baptist minister and television evangelist who ran for president in 1988 and in 1989 founded the conservative religious interest group the Christian Coalition
Setence : Pat Robertson was someone who supported amd owner of the interest group .
Patron
A person who finances a group or individual activity
Setence : the goveremt are the patron .
Plurist thoery
The theory that political power is distributed among a wide array of diverse and competing interest groups.
Sentence : The plurist thoery is among the military an dinterest groups.
Progressive movement
A broad group of political and social activists from the 1890s to the 1920s who opposed corruption in government, supported regulation of monopolies, and sought improvement of socioeconomic conditions
Sentence : The progressive movement were the poltical and socail activits .
Poltical Action comitte (PAC)
Officially recognized Fund-raising organization that represents interest groups and is allowed by federal law to make contributions directly to candidates’ campaigns
Sentence : The PAC was a group who fund rasied organizations.
public interest group
An organization that seeks a collective good that if achieved will not selectively and materially benefit group members
Sentence : The public interest group were a collective good that achieved will not selectively.
social captial
cooperative relationships that facilitate the resolution of collective problems
Sentence : The social captial was the reslotion of collective problems.
The grange
Founded in 1867 as an educational organization for farmers, evolved into the first truly national interest group by working to protect the political and economic concerns of farming communities and rural areas.
Sentence : The grange was an educational organzational for framaers.
trade assocaition
a group that represents a specific industry
Sentence : Trade assocaition was a group that represnts a specific indurty
transactions thoery
The theory that public policies are the result of narrowly defined exchanges or transactions among political actors
sentence : Transactions thoery is the thoery that defined exchanges and political acotrs.
U.S. Chamber of commerce
A major pro-business lobbying group founded in 1912
Sentence : The us chamber of commerce was found in 1912
Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)
A public interest group created in 1874 with the goal of outlawing the sale of liquor. Its activities included prayer groups, protest marches, lobbying, and the destruction of saloons
Sentence : The WCTU was a group that invloved everything.
