Definitions
An employment cycle in which individuals who work for government agencies that regulate interests eventually end up working for interest groups or businesses with the same policy concern.
What is the revolving door?
An iron triangle composed of the United Farm Workers of America, the House of Representatives Agriculture Committee, and the USDA.
What is an example of an agriculture iron triangle?
Interest groups, congressional committees, and federal departments/agencies all work together to create a safer country.
What is the relationship between the three sides of a defense iron triangle?
A policy-making instrument composed of a tightly related alliance of a congressional committee, interest groups, and a federal department or agency.
What is an iron triangle?
An iron triangle composed of the National Defense PAC, the House Committee on Armed Forces, and the Department of Homeland Security.
What is an example of a defense iron triangle?
Issue networks are very loosely formed and only last as long as an issue is a hot topic, whereas iron triangles are much more solidified.
What is the difference between issue networks and iron triangles?
A mutual relationship between the government and interest groups to benefit each other.
What is the result of an iron triangle?
Local governments, the mass media, the CDC, and Tobacco Growers all focus on tobacco bans.
What is an example of an issue network?
The revolving door strengthens an iron triangle. It allows an iron triangle to be brought together by those who travel between the different groups that make up the iron triangle.
What is the relationship between the revolving door and iron triangles?
A policy-making instrument composed of loosely related interest groups, congressional committee, presidential aides, and other parties.
What is an issue network?
Eugene Scalia, current secretary of labor nominee, was a lawyer for the Retail Industry Leaders Association and lobbyist for the chamber of commerce before being named Department of Labor Solicitor during the Bush administration.
What is an example of the use of the revolving door?
Over time, interest groups have become much more specialized. Because of this, it is impossible to fill the third side of an iron triangle, which is why more issue networks have been formed. These are not quite as strong a coalition as an iron triangle, but they are much more realistic in the modern bureaucracy.
What is the relationship between iron triangles and issue networks?