POLS 1336 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Aarp

• School: University of Houston
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 1336
• Professor: Andrea Eckelman

Document Summary

Thrump"s campaign manager is in prison for attacking a reporter. People is not equally likely to join or form interest groups income and education tend to be the best predictors of interest groups membership however there is diversity among the types of people who join of form them. Occupational groups doctors and lawyers workers like teachers and tradespeople executives in business and industry social class working class people are less likely to involve in interest groups important exception: labor unions are most likely to organize working-class. Patterns of membership occupations willing to join interest groups that represent their views education those with higher educational more likely to be informed about issues and more. How interest groups succeed environment more likely to take note of the groups position the cohesion of a group also matters to participant and to policy makers the demographics of a groups membership also may increase its success.