CHAPTER 10 - PSC
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- Chapter 10 - Interest Groups and Lobbying
- Interest Groups
- e.g NRA, corps, labour unions.
- Membership, companies, legislative liaison, associations and organizations
- Functions: influence policy, agenda setting, monitor gov activity, give info
- Private interest groups seek particularized benefits from gov. Public is to promote public goods to help a majority.
- Influence elections by supporting candidates and influence policy by giving them voting cues.
- Covered by 1st Amendment, campaign money FEC
- Lobbyists
- Lobbying Disclosure Act requires the registration of lobbyists that devout more than 20% of their time.
- Methods, inside and outsider.
- Regulation: Lobbying disclosure act, honest leadership, revolving door laws, penalties.
- Collective Action Problem
- Group's goals best achieved by working together but individual needs best served by free-riding.
- To counter interest groups use material, solidary and purposive incentives.
- Interest groups offer individuals political participation through protests, voting, campaigning, contacting lawmakers and informing the public.
- Joining interest groups helps boost civic engagement. GRASSROOT AND ASTROTURF
- Disturbance theory explains why groups will mobilize due to an event.
- Trends & Represen-tation
- New interests in society, devolution of power, specialization of interests, fragmentation, size of the eco.
- Barries like socioeconomic, wealth, ed.
- Larger groups have higher participation, poor have time constraints, lack of political knowledge and low levels of efficacy.
- Iron triangle and issue networks
- Interest Groups
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