An organized group of individuals that seeks to influence public policy.
What is an interest group
100
A general plan of action adopted by the government to solve a social problem, counter a threat, or pursue an objective
What is public policy
100
A large, complex organization in which employees have specific job responsibilities and work within a hierarchy of authority
What is a bureaucracy
100
An organizations informal unwritten rules that guide individual behavior
What are norms
200
Communicates information through the publication of words and pictures on a page
What is print media
200
An organization that pools campaign contributions from group members and donates those funds to candidates for political office.
What is a political action committee (PAC)
200
The two types of policies
What is distributive policies and redistributional policies
200
These are the characteristics of a bureaucracy
What is divided supervision, close scrutiny, and regulation rather than public ownership
200
The last step of policymaking
What is policy evaluation
300
Both reporting news and running commercials geared to a target audience defined by demographic characteristics.
What is market driven journalism
300
Claims that interest groups benefit American democracy by bringing representation to all
What is the pluralist theory
300
The largest single source of federal revenue today, providing almost 40% of the national governments total revenues
What is income tax
300
The system by which most appointments to the federal bureaucracy are made, to ensure that, government jobs are filled on the basis of merit and that employees are not fired for political reasons
What is civil service
300
Censorship before publication
What is prior restraint
400
Studies have shown that those who rely on this for their news score lower on tests of public knowledge than those who read print media
What is television
400
Public interest groups particularly depend on these grants, funds established usually by prominent families or corporations for philanthropy
What are foundation grants
400
The three major categories that government spends revenue on
What is entitlement programs, national defense, and national debt
400
The latitude that Congress gives the agencies to make policy in the spirit of their legislative mandate.
What is administrative discretion
400
Argues that just a few interest groups have most of the power
What is the elitist theory
500
Continuous radio broadcast began in 1920 on stations KDKA and WWJ in these two cities
What is Pittsburgh and Detroit
500
These factors contribute to the effectiveness of an interest group
What is size, intensity, and financial resources
500
The five stages of policymaking
What is agenda setting, policy formulation, implementation, and policy evaluation
500
Policymaking characterized by a series of decisions, each instituting modest change
What is incrementalism
500
Through this practice, government officials - both in Congress and executive agencies quit their jobs to take positions as lobbyists or consultants to businesses