POL 12000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Pressure Measurement, Advocacy Group, Rationality
Document Summary
" think about causal change ; try to find a problem"s root: often , to address one policy , you have to solve many others interest in groups in the polis. People and organizations who have a stake in an issue on are affected by it. Often have competing , incompatible goals: people join interest groups to satisfy interests or address issues they care about. Pluralism : political system consists of multiple interest groups competitiong for power: no single group dominates. Citizens form interest groups to tackle unaddressed problems. Interest group systemis egalitarian rather than hierarchical. If people aren"t organizing, they are satisfied. Society is hierarchical and that power and resources are unequally distributed. Rational choice theory: people are unlikely to join and form ic. People are self-interested and pursue their own interests. Irrational to participate unless there is an economic incentive. Few world volunteer if it is unlikelythat change is possible.
