POLI 101 Lecture 21: POLI 320 - April 2, 2015.docx
21 Apr 2015
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What kinds of interest groups are more likely to be influential? groups that are organized being organized means paying membership dues and spending time and energy for the group"s causes (ex. participation in labor strikes, sharing the cost of hiring lobbyist, etc. ) but to be organized, interest groups must overcome a collective action problem a collective action problem arises when individuals can consume the benefit of a public good without paying a fair share of the costs of its production, causing people to not want to participate (ex. workers can enjoy the benefit of increases wage without participating in labor strikes) What kinds of interest groups are more likely to overcome the collective action problem? small number of potential members (ex. producers vs. consumers) economic resources (ex. industries vs. environmental groups organizational backgrounds (cid:224) their work environments (ex. blue collar workers vs. white collar workers, religious groups, etc. ) for some groups, it is relatively easy to be organized due to.
