Lecture 7 Flashcards

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Interest groups

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Organizations that defend the interests of a particular group of people. Use a mixture of conventional and unconventional tactics.

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Protective groups

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Seek selective benefits for their members, defend an interest

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Promotional groups

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Promoting some distinct political causes, anyone can join

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Functions of interest groups

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  • Increase representation and participation
  • Public awareness
  • Agenda setting
  • Monitoring of government
  • Lobbying
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5
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Distinctions between interest groups and political parties

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  1. Interest groups don’t seek to be part of government

2. Interest groups tend to focus on one political issue or a specific range of issues

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6
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Corporatism

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Institutionalized cooperation between key interest groups, political parties and the state in formulation of public policies

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7
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Interest groups in corporatism (social partners)

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  1. Integrated in a set of institutional arrangements facilitating permanent bargaining
  2. Centralized and concentrated in peak associations
  3. Willing to compromise
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Corporatism has declined in importance

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  • European integration
  • Changes in the way economic production is organized
  • New democracies emerging in Eastern Europe where trade unions were associated with communist past
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9
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Pluralism

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Competition between interest groups for influence on public policies in which the state plays a neutral role

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10
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Interest groups in pluralism

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  1. Dispersed across different institutional arenas
  2. Fragmented into a number of groups
  3. Competing with each other
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Policy networks

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Heterogeneous group of persons and organizations, including interest groups, that are part of a relatively loose but enduring social structure

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12
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Social movements

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Dense organizational networks of people sharing some common identity, who engage in a sustained series of non-institutionalized action

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13
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Three important elements

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  1. Common sense of identity
  2. Sustained action
  3. Non-institutionalized channels of operation
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