The Role of Interest Groups and Interest Group Politics
How Groups Try To Shape Policy
Types of Interest Groups
100
An organization that advocates for policies through lobbying, electioneering, grassroots mobilization and protesting.
What is an interest group?
100
Efforts by an interest group or individual to contact a member of Congress and advocate for a particular policy.
What is lobbying?
100
Permitted states to adopt right-to-work laws.
What is the Taft-Hartley Act?
200
A theory of government and politics emphasizing that politics is mainly a competition among groups, each one pressing for its own preferred policies.
What is pluralism?
200
A tactic used by interest groups which consist of filing a lawsuit.
What is litigation?
200
A type of interest group concerned with wages, prices, and profits.
What is economic interest groups?
300
The contrasting theory to the pluralist theory.
What is the elite theory?
300
An argument filed with a court by an individual or group who is not a party to a lawsuit.
What is an amicus curiae brief?
300
The newest political interest group.
What is environmental interest groups?
400
Interest groups have multiple policy arenas and are often policy specialist.
What is the difference between parties and interest groups?
400
Political funding vehicles created by the 1974 campaign finance reforms.
What is PACs?
400
Interest groups that fight for equal rights.
What is civil rights interest groups?
500
The right to peaceably assemble and petition the government for a redress of grievances.
What is the freedom to organize?
500
Lawsuits permitting a small number of peopleto sue on behalf of all other people similarly situated.
What is class action suits?
500
Organizations that seek a collective good, the achievement of which will not selectively and materially benefit the membership or activists of the organization.