PL SC 001 Study Guide - Final Guide: High Visibility, Muckraker, News Leak
22 Apr 2016
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Interest group: organized groups of people seeking to influence public policy. Different from a party or pac because they influence government rather than nominate candidates. They are smaller than parties and focused around a discrete set of issues (or one issue). They also petition government as outsiders, rather than officials and work at a grassroots level. Interest groups are necessary to us politics because . Bands of people work better than individuals (aggregate) The american political system would not function without interest groups. What they do: they alert politicians to the problems and organize. Describe the different types of interest groups that exist in us politics and be able to identify/cite examples of each type of group. Trade association: business operating in an industry. Professional association: represents people in a profession. Unions: workers banded together to further interest. Cause of emergence: emerge from threats to interest from society, or other organizations or government, or of the activity of other groups.
