POL214Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Parliamentary System, Corporatism, Greenpeace
14 Jan 2018
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Interest groups: any private association that promotes interests by attempting to influence governments: why, promote economic interests, promote group characteristics: ethnicity, race, religious gender, promote shared values. Canadian examples: business groups: canadian chamber of commerce (business group, cpma, national golf course owner"s association. Interest groups = entrepreneurial politics: ability of politicians and interest groups to identify issues around which popular support can be mobilized in opposition to business. In canada = fewer opportunities for entrepreneurial politics than in us because of party discipline in parliament: but: interest groups practice outside of lobbying = use of media. If you are really powerful and have resources, need not worry about competition because you already have access. Corporatism: political structure where organizations representing business and labour directly participate in public policy making. Specific interests like the dairy lobby: collective solidarity incentives. Peak associations: chamber of commerce, purposive incentives, key concepts, policy communities, policy networks.
