Interest Groups
These organizations, often criticized in democracy, cannot be abolished due to constitutional guarantees.
What are special interest groups?
This concept refers to widely shared beliefs, values, and norms concerning relationships of citizens to governments.
What is political culture?
According to the notes, even organizations that promote their own private interests contribute to democracy by doing this.
What is informing public figures, their own members, and fellow citizens, as well as mobilizing individuals to participate in the civil struggle?
According to the notes, what are the two main resources that interest organizations possess?
What is information and money?
(True or False) The best lobbying technique is direct personal contact
What is true?
Name one of the two main resources possessed by interest organizations.
What is information or money?
In this system, several parties compete for control.
What is a multi-party system?
According to biases mentioned in the notes, this group is more influential than the working class when it comes to interest group organization.
Who are the middle class and upper class?
The amendment that protects the rights of expression and association.
First Amendment
The best way to ensure personal access to politicians is to give them ______ or the equivalent
What is money?
According to biases mentioned in the notes, this group is more likely to be organized than consumers.
Who are producers?
This political ideology emphasizes individual liberties and personal choices.
What is social liberalism?
According to the notes, what principle seems to be at odds with the interest group structure?
What is the principle of equal rights for all people?
According to the notes, what do interest groups use lobbying to stop?
What is the passage of stricter regulatory regulations?
Many of the most successful lobbyists are former state ______ or ______
What is legislators and executives?
Despite attempts to control them, interest groups often circumvent laws and exert influence through this activity.
What is lobbying?
This political ideology tends to emphasize economic equality.
What is economic liberalism?
According to the notes, why are some interest groups more influential in state politics than others?
Why they are more organized, well-funded, or have greater public support.
The government authority that deals with how citizens use their rights.
Regulation
Lobbyists primarily seek to ingratiate themselves with two officials in the legislature, the ______ and _______
-Governor, Speaker of the House
-Speaker of the House, Lieutenant Governor
-Governor, Lieutenant Governor
What is Speaker of the House, Lieutenant Governor?
This political party's affiliated organizations have increased their power in Texas over the past three decades.
What is the Republican Party?
According to the notes, which group has more power than disadvantaged groups due to the interest group structure?
Who are wealthy organizations?
According to the notes, what has happened to the influence of Democratic-affiliated organizations in Texas over the past three decades?
What is a decrease?
Tactic used by groups to directly influence officeholders and often regulated by texas.
Lobbying
According to Texas Monthly magazine, the maximum amount top-flight lobbyists could earn per session in 2017 was _____
-$2.6 million
-$2.8 million
-$3.0 million
What is $2.6 million?