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In which ways do groups differ?

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Skills, money, time, leadership and capacity for action

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What has allowed for such huge numbers of interest groups?

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The many access points created by our federal system

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What are the four subgroups of economic interest groups?

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Business groups, labor groups,agricultural groups, professional groups

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What advantage does a business group have?

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They have the size factor advantage

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How many workers belong in labor groups?

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1/7

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What are the largest unions of labor groups?

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Public Service and public employees

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What exists between agricultural groups?

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Disagreement

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What are the three subgroups of citizens groups?

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Public interest groups, single issue groups, ideological groups

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What are public interest groups deal with?

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They claim to represent broad interests of society

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What are single issue groups deal with?

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Concerned about one policy area only

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What do ideological groups doing?

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Philosophical or moral stance on an issue

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What is the special category of governments deal with?

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Foreign governments use lobbyists in DC

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What is inside lobbying

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Seeking influence their official contacts

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What is outside Lobbying

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Seeking influence through public pressure

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In the Federalist papers, Madison took the position that the causes of faction can be found in

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The nature of man

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Where political parties are strong, interest groups are likely to be

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Week

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The great aero organization building in America occurred during the years

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1900 to 1920

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Large labor unions had no reason to exist until the era of

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Mass production industry

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Professional societies of doctors and lawyers first gained in importance because

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State governments gave them the authority to decide qualifications for their professions

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The great majority of Public interest lobby is were established

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After 1960

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In the landmark case US versus Harris, the Supreme Court ruled the government can

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Require information from groups that try to influence legislation

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It is often said that America is a nation of

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Joiners

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Americans are less likely than the British to join

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Labor unions

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Americans have an unusually high rate of membership in

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Religious organizations, civic organizations, and political associations

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Solitary incentives involve

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A sense of pleasure status or companionship

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When the Illinois Farm Bureau offers its members discount prices and the chance to purchase low-cost insurance, it is providing

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Material incentives

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Purposive incentives involved

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The appeal of a stated goal

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Ralph Nader rose to national prominence on the issue of

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Auto safety

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Membership organizations that rely on purpose of incentives tend to be shaped by

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The mood of the times

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The center for defense information, the children’s Defense fund, and the economic policy Institute are examples of

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Liberal think tank’s

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The national organization for women and the national abortion-rights action league are examples of organizations that feature

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Purposive incentives

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The major union movement in America occurred in the

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1930s

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The shift in the nation’s economic life toward _____ has contributed to the decline in unions

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Service delivery

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Beltway bandit’s are

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Large national for-profit firms with trade representatives or lobbyists in Washington

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About _____ percent of the interest groups represented in Washington DC are public interest groups

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Four

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Although farmers today have difficulty getting Congress to pass bills in their favor, they are still able to

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Block bills that they don’t like

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Probably the best measure of an interest groups ability to influence legislatures and bureaucrats is its

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Organizational skill

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The single most important tactic of an interest group is the ability to

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Provide credible information

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Interest group ratings can be helpful sources of information but can be problematic because of

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Bias in arbitrary measurement and assessment

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The dirty dozen refers to members of Congress who are one interest group deemed to be

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Anti-environment

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The passage of the campaign finance reform law in 1973 went to the rapid growth in

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PACs

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Sen. Kennedy’s observation that we may have the finest Congress that money can buy is probably off Mark because

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PACs are so numerous and easy to form

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Over half of all PACs are sponsored by

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Corporations

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Scholars have found a slight statistical correlation between PAC contributions and congressional votes when votes involve

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Issues which you do not interest constituents and issues where positions are not driven by ideology

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The revolving door between government and business raises the possibility of

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Conflict of interest

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Former executive branch employees may not appear before an agency for ____. After leaving government service on matters that came before the former employees official sphere of responsibility

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Two years

46
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Laws which restricts the activity of interest groups are always in potential conflict with

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The first amendment

47
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What is the definition of an interest group

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A group of people that work together to influence public policy

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The US wine industry is represented in DC by a group that seeks to influence policies regarding wine, what kind of interest group is this?

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Institutional

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What is the course of action followed by most people who are sympathetic to the aims of mass membership interest groups?

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They don’t join it

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What type of incentive is a discount on auto rentals?

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Materialistic

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What type of incentive to join does the national organization for women offer?

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Purposive

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When was the Sierra Club founded?

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1890s

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What percent of American workers are in unions?

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10%

54
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What is the major cause of the decline of union membership

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Americans are turning against unions. Government needs to put in supports for the unions, or they will lose popularity

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Field of work is becoming important to the union movement?

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Public service employees

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What are the three important sources of funds for lobbying groups?

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Foundation grants, federal grants, direct mailing

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What are the demographics of most people who join an interest group?

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Upper-class, highly educated

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What is the greatest restraint stopping lobbyists from misrepresenting facts to legislatures

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Lobbyist will lose their trust, therefore money as well

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What is an earmark?

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A provision in the law that provides direct benefit to a client without the benefit of being received by all of Congress

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What is the Brady bill passed in 1993?

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Brady got shot and a gun control Bill got passed

61
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Man member of Congress start a PAC?

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Yes

62
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Explain the revolving door

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Revolves from private industry work to government industry work

63
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How common is the tactic of disruption or taking it to the streets of interest groups?

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Very common throughout history

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Why did the Sierra Club get its tax exempt status revoked

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To politically inclined

65
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What are think tanks

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Smart people that get together and collect information on issue then submit opinions on the issue. Generally nonprofit

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How did the rank-and-file union members different opinion on civil rights from their union staff

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They’re against integration

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