Test 2 A Flashcards
Women’s right to Vote.
19th Amendment
Prevents the states from enforcing a voting age higher than 18.
26th Amendment
A party’s efforts to inform potential voters about issues and candidates and persuade them to vote.
Voter Mobilization
Citizens’ involvement in groups and their relationships to their communities and families.
Social Connectedness
The phenomenon of a clientele group, congressional committee and bureaucratic agency cooperating to make beneficial policy.
Iron Triangles
Interest group activities aimed at persuading policy makers to support the group’s position.
Lobbying
Indirect lobbying efforts that spring from widespread public concern.
Grassroots Lobbying
Legislation opening the process of bureaucratic policymaking to the public.
Sunshine Laws
Complex systems of relationships between groups that influence policy.
Issue Networks
The difficulty groups face in recruiting when potential members can gain the benefits of the group’s actions whether they join or not.
Free Rider
Selective incentives related to the interaction and bonding among group members.
Solidary Incentives
Selective incentives in the form of tangible rewards. Discounts for things. (NRA- Bullets).
Material Incentives
A benefit that comes from serving a cause or principle; people who join because of these are usually passionate about the cause or principle.
Purposive Incentive
Benefits that are available only to group members as an inducement to get them to join.
Selective Incentives
the activity in which the political demands of groups and individuals are combined into policy programs.
Interest Aggregation
