POL 102 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: William Marbury, Certiorari, Reserve Requirement

• School: Stony Brook University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL 102
• Professor: John Ryan

Document Summary

Interest groups: an organization of people who share a common interest and work together to protect and promote that interest. Important in the area of public policies (the government"s policy on issues and problems that face the public) If the government chooses not to do anything or if they choose to do something, both are public policies. The interest groups try to convince the government to either change or keep the public policies depending on what is to their interest". (lobbying: attempting to persuade elected officials to adopt policies or maintain status quo) Their policy goals are to accommodate to public good. (for the masses) The organization is runned by the people. Closed membership (have to have certain qualifications to join the group) Get their resources from money and policy expertise. The organization is runned by a single authority (centralized) The iron triangle: the three groups share information with one another and sometimes even former employees.