PRESSURE GROUP TACTICS AND METHODS

Question 1

What are the 4 main methods used of pressure groups

Answer 1

Political campaigning

Lobbying

Direct action

Boycotts

Question 2

Plenty of Us pressure groups focus especially on what vs uk

Answer 2

Securing the election of candidates favourable to them

Question 3

Many groups make campaign donations though what

Answer 3

PACs and super PACs

Question 4

Who are EMILY’s list

Answer 4

a pressure group that works to select and elect pro-choice politicians to congress

All group distributed goes to liberal, female candidates

Question 5

How much did EMILY’s list donate over 2020 election

Answer 5

45m

Question 6

groups often endorse who

Answer 6

Candidates

Question 7

Some groups issue what at election time

Answer 7

Voting records of how candidates voted in the past

Question 8

What are access points

Answer 8

Different levels and institutions of gov groups will target to influence

Question 9

what are 3 access points

Answer 9

Congress
State legislatures
Federal agencies

Question 10

What is the most effective method of a group

Answer 10

Lobbying

Question 11

many pressure groups have offices where so they can do what

Answer 11

Washington dc and state capitals

Supply specialist policy information to legislators

Question 12

What is K street

Answer 12

A street in washington dc where many big lobbying firms are based

Question 13

Many lobbyists are what

Answer 13

former members of congress or former high-ranking federal bureaucrats

Question 14

What is the revolving door syndrome

Answer 14

When former legislators or bureaucrats go from positions in the legislature or executive into lobbying

Question 15

What did trump do for lobbying

Answer 15

2017 issued an executive order that members of his administration couldn’t lobby for 5 years after leaving

Revoked the order on his last day in office jan 2021

Question 16

Lobbying what federal agency can be effective

Answer 16

Environment protection agency

Question 17

What happened to the 2010 Dodd-frank act

Answer 17

By 2014 federal agencies had only written 200 of the 400 required regulations

This delay was due to extensive lobbying

Question 18

What are “amicus curiae briefs”

Answer 18

documents made by lawyers and contain info to influence judges

Question 19

Example of a case with amicus curiae briefs

Answer 19

in 2021 80 briefs were presented during the fulton V philadelphia case

Case about city council withdrawing a fostering contract with a roman catholic adoption service not allowing gay-couples to adopt

Question 20

How many amicus curiae briefs were submitted for obergefell v hodges

Answer 20

148 record

Question 21

How many amicus curiae briefs were submitted for brown vs board of education of topeka

Answer 21

6

Question 22

Groups often lobby the senate over what

Answer 22

USSC nominees

Question 23

Example of groups campaigning against a USSC nomination

Answer 23

Many women’s and civil rights groups strongly lobbied against Bork’s nomination in 1987

Question 24

What is the most commonly used method used by outsider groups

Answer 24

direct action

Question 25

Most direct action takes the form of what

Answer 25

Mass demonstrations but can include strikes

Question 26

What movement heavily used direct action

Answer 26

MLK and civil rights in 1950’s and 1960’s

Question 27

direct action can get associated with what

Answer 27

Riots and violence

Question 28

Example of a violent direct action

Answer 28

BLM protest in 2016 led to 5 police officers dying

Question 29

Example of direct action over gun control

Answer 29

Following school shootings in florida in 2018 hundreds and thousands of students took part in “march for our lives” campaign for gun control

Question 30

Example of direct action causing a riot

Answer 30

jan 2021 capitol attack

Done as right-wing conservative groups thought election was rigged

Question 31

Is direct action more effective than lobbying

Answer 31

no

Question 32

Arguments that lobbying is more effective than direct action

Answer 32

Publicity hard to contain over a long-term

can be linked to violence and law-breaking

Question 33

Example of a boycott

Answer 33

Rosa parks in the montgomery bus boycott in 1955-56

Question 34

Economic pressure used by who to pressure law-makers

Answer 34

Businesses and celebrities