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Types of Interest Groups
Interest Groups at Work
Nature of Interest Groups
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An organization whose members are linked by a common opinion. The groups tries to persuade public officials to respond to the shared attitude of the members.
What is an interest group.
100
This includes all the goals the government sets and the actions it takes to reach those goals.
What is public policy?
100
The National Council of Churches, American Jewish Congress, and National Catholic Welfare Council are examples of these.
What are religious organizations?
100
This is way interest groups try to influence public opinion.
What is building positive reputations in society? or, supplying the public with information to support their interests? or, working to persuade the public to adopt their views on policy issues?
100
Most interest groups are concerned with ___________ issues.
What are economic?
200
This is a technique of persuasion aimed at influencing individual or group behavior.
What is propaganda
200
These are issues that concern the people at large.
What are public affairs?
200
What is an example of a professional group?
What are the American Medical Association, the American Bar Association, and the National Education Association?
200
This is the main difference between interest groups and political parties.
What is getting elected?
200
This president warned against the danger of uncontrolled "factions" that might pursue goals that conflict with the rights and interests of the community.
Who is James Madison?
300
This is an organization of workers who work in the same type of job or who work in the same industry.
What is a labor union?
300
This is an organization that concentrates on one issue.
What is a single interest group?
300
The AFL-CIO, UAW, and International Longshore and Warehouse Union are examples of these types of interest groups.
What are Labor unions?
300
What are two ways interest groups influence people?
What is direct and indirect?
300
Most Americans join groups. T or F
What is true?
400
This is a groups that pushes for public policies that benefit most or all people in the country, reguardless of whether they belong to or support the group.
What is a public interest group?
400
This includes all of the methods by which group pressures are brought to bear on all aspects of the public policy making process.
What is lobbying?
400
These an three examples of a business group.
What are NAM, the Chamber of Commerce, and the U.S. Brewers' Association?
400
This is main function of lobbying.
What is getting laws passed or not passed?
400
Meeting with a public official is a _________ type of persuasion used by interest groups.
What is direct?
500
This is an interest group for a segment of the business community.
What is a trade association?
500
This refers to political movements related to the people, or the average voter.
What is grass roots?
500
This is an example of an interest group that promotes environmental causes.
What is the Sierra Club?
500
Politicians are allowed to take gifts from lobbyists? T or F
What is False?
500
The difference between a trade group and a labor union.
What is business owners and workers?