Interest Group Flashcards

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Faction

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Parties or interest groups that James Madison saw as arising from the unequal distribution of property or wealth and attacked as having potential to cause instability in government.

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Pluralist theory

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A theory of government and politics emphasizing that many groups, each pressing for it’s preferred policies, compete and counterbalance one another in the political marketplace.

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Elite theory

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A theory of government and politics contending that an upperclass elite will hold the most power and thus in effect run the government.

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Hyperpluralist theory

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A theory of government and politics contending that groups are so strong that government, seeking to please them all, is thereby weakened.

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Sub-governments/iron triangles

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A mutually dependent, mutually advantages relationship between interest groups interested in a particular policy, government agencies that administer that policy, and the congressional committees and subcommittees that handle it.

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Potential group

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All the people who might be interest groups members because they share some common interest.

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Actual group

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The people in the potential groups who actually join.

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Collective good

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Something of value that cannot be withheld from a potential group member.

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Free-rider problem

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For a group, the problem I people not joining because they can benefit from the group’s activities without joining.

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Olson’s law of large groups

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The smaller the better and more effective
•easier to organize & activate all it’s members
•prevents free-rider problem

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Lobbyist

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A “communication, by someone other than a citizen acting on his or her own behalf, directed to a governmental decision maker with the hope of influencing his it her decision.”

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Electioneering

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Direct group involvement in the electoral process, for example, by helping to fund campaigns, getting members to work for candidates, and forming political action committees.

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Litigation

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Used if an interest groups fails in Congress or get only a vague piece if legislation.

  • “friend of the court”
  • groups together cases with similar issues
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Interest Groups

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An organization of people with shared policy goals entering the policy process at several points to try to achieve those goals.

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