Types of interest groups
Interest group activities
Classify the interest group
Other
100

What type of interest group favors a single interest or a narrow set of interests?

What is a private interest group

100

What is it called when an interest group funds a candidate?

What is Electioneering

100

What type of interest group is the Sierra Club environmental group?

What is a public interest group

100

What is any organization that seeks to influence public policy?

What is an interest group

200

What type of interest group favors collective goods and helps all kinds of citizens?

What is a public interest group

200

What are efforts by groups to influence public policy through contact with public officials?

lobbying

200

What type of intertest group is the National Association of Manufactures?

What is an Economic interest group

200

What are actions taken together by a group of people to achieve a common objective?

What is collective action

300

What is the interest group that focuses on jobs and the protection of an occupation?

What is an economic interest group

300

What type of lobbying develops and maintains close contact with policymakers?

What is inside lobbying

300

What type of interest group is the U.S Chamber of Commerce?

What is a private interest group

300

What causes interest groups and the candidates they support to disclose their contributions to the TEC?

What is the regulations of interest groups

400

What interest groups are motivated by what they consider a worthy goal or purpose?

What is a membership/citizen interest group

400

What type of lobbying brings outside pressure to bear on policy makers?

What is outside lobbing

400

What type of interest group is the National Rifle Association?

What is a membership or Citizens' group

400

What commission gives commission access to easy public information?

What is the Texas Ethics commission?

500

What interest seeks to influence other levels of government?

What is a government interest group

500

What type of lobbying influences legislation directly through letters, emails, faxes, and phone calls?

What is grassroots lobbying

500

What type of interest group is the NAACP

(National Association for the advancement of Colored People)

What is a membership or citizens' group

500

What court case gave interest groups power to directly create ads supporting the candidates to push their message?

What is the Citizens United Vs. FEC