What the heck are those?
Groups, groups, & more groups
So what?
The Power of the Interest Group
Potpourri
100
A group of citizens who are united by some common passion and place their own interests above the aggregate interests of society.
What is a faction?
100
These types form to advance the economic status of its members. An example would be the National Association of Realtors.
What are economic interest groups?
100
An example of this function would be when groups are constantly monitoring policies that might affect their group members and update their websites about that.
What is providing information?
100
These are groups formed to raise and contribute funds to support electoral candidates, subject to campaign finance laws.
What are PACs?
100
That's the date of when we can vote...NOT early voting.
What is November 6th?
200
Organized group of individuals who actively attempt to influence policymakers in all four branches and at all levels.
What is an interest group?
200
Dentists, pilots, teachers are part of this type of interest groups.
What are professional associations?
200
This is a way of keeping state's congressional delegates informed about how federal programs are running back home and to ask for legislation that will benefit their states.
What is lobbying?
200
Those are the two types of lobbying that interest groups do. The first one is when they interest with the public officials and the second one is when they influence government by getting the public to put pressure on them.
What is direct lobbying and indirect lobbying?
200
Oh, so that's how you spell Dr. J's and Ms. Perez's names?
Jozwiak and Chelsea
300
Dr. Jozwiak used that group as an example of an interest group.
What is MADD?
300
Those are a type of economic interest group that is comprised of people who share a common type of employment.
What are unions?
300
This is role of the press that interest groups try to use to their benefit. It's way of monitoring government actions.
What is watchdog?
300
That is a type of Congressional Lobbying where there is movement of Congress members, lobbyists, and executive branch employees into paid positions into each other's organizations.
What is the revolving door?
300
That's where Ms. Perez also works on campus.
What is the Writing Center?
400
Dr. Jozwiak used that group as an example of a faction.
What is the NRA?
400
Issues such as public safety, clean air, safe drinking water, and strong national defense are some of the issues that fall under this type of interest group.
What is the collective good?
400
Those are the three main things interest groups do.
What are inform, lobby and engage in campaign activities?
400
"Rifle" techniques and "Shotgun" techniques fall under that type of activism.
What is grass roots activism?
400
That's Ms. Simpson's cell phone number.
What is 400-6032?
500
It states that Congress cannot prohibit "the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
What is the First Amendment?
500
Those are ALL of the different types of public interest group categories that Dr. Jozwiak discussed....duh (HINT: There are 8)
What are environmental groups, consumer groups, religious groups, 2nd amendment groups, reproductive rights groups, human rights, and equal opportunity interest groups?
500
An example of that type of engagement in campaign activities would be when the pharmaceutical industry, health care providers, and unions ran ads in support of President Obama's health care reform.
What is issue advocacy?
500
That is a type of indirect lobbying efforts by interest groups that manipulate public interest to further their own agenda. They appear to be grass roots activists but are not.
What is "astroturf" lobbying?
500
Those are the chapters that will be on the next test along with the date of the third exam.
What are Chapters 8, 9, 10 and November 9th?
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