Topic 1 Flashcards
What is interest group?
Is an association of individuals or organisations which attempts to influence government and public policy without seriously seeking election to parliament. Sometimes called pressure group or lobby group or NGO (non-government organisation).
What is lobbying?
Their attempts to influence public policy occur in a variety of ways.
What is a lobbyist?
Is a person who represents an interest to government in order to exert influence in that group’s favour. A lobbyist can be interest-group employees or they can be paid intermediaries.
What is Intermediary?
A person who acts as a link between people in order to try and bring about an agreement; a mediator.
Sectional interest groups
They claim to represent the interests of particular sections of society. Among sectional groups are producer groups - those representing business, labour and farmers.
What is promotional group?
An interest group that claim to promote particular ideas and values. They exist to promote such ideas and causes as women’s rights, protection of animals and the temperance movement.
What is politics?
Is the activity through which people make, preserve and amend the general rules under which they live.
What is Power?
Is the ability to achieve a desired outcome, and it is sometimes referred to in terms of the ‘power to’ do something.
What is a state?
Is a human community the successfully claims the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory. Is considered the sole source of the ‘right’ to use violence.
What is elaboration?
Is the process of giving new material meaning by expressing it in your own words and connecting it with what you already know.
What is retrieval practice?
Recalling facts or concepts or events from memory - is a far more effective learning strategy than review by rereading.
