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Interest Group/s
Chapter 11 Vocab
| Vocab Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| Interest Groups | A group who seeks to influence public policy. |
| Client Politics | When an organized minority or interest group benefits at the expense of the public. |
| Political Cues | A signal telling the official what values are at stake in an issue. (who is for or against an issue and that issue fits into their political ideology) |
| Intergovernmental Lobby | When two levels lobby each other. |
| Institutional Interest Groups | Organizations who represent other organizations. |
| Public Interest Lobby | When the purpose of the organization will principally benefit nonmembers. |
| Membership Interest Groups | Individual members that make up the organization. |
| Ratings | Designed to generate public support/oppose for various legislators. |
| Incentives | Something of value they cannot get without joining. |
| Solidary Incentives | Sense of pleasure status you get from joining or companionship that arises out of meeting together in small groups. |
| Material Incentives | Money, things, and services readily valued in monetary terms. |
| Purposive Incentives | The appeal to their stated goals(Ideological Appeal). |
| Ideological Interest Groups | Organizations that attract members by appealing to their interest in a coherent set of controversal principles. |
| (PIRGS) Public Interest Research Groups | Student activism/involvement on current community issues. |
| Lobbyist | Interest Group who gather information and present it in as organized, persuasive, and factual manner as possible. |
| Social Movement | Widely shared demand for change in some aspect of the social or political order. |
| League of Women Voters | To educate and organize women for the purpose of using their right effectively. |
| (WEAL) Women's Equity Action League | A specific caucus that has a material benefit for women. Obtains grants from foundations and government agencies. |
| (NOW) National Organization for Women | Feminist movement for purposive incentives. |
| (NARAL) National Abortion Rights Action League | Proabortion Activists |
| "Beltway Bandits" | Many large national for-profit firms with trade representatives or other lobbyists in Washington who do most or all of their business by winning federal grants and contracts. |
| Direct Mail | Mailing listings online and bombarding them with paid e-mails to get you to join their lobby. |
| Insider Strategy | Lobbyists working closely with a few key members of Congress, meeting them privately to exchange information and favors. |
| Outsider Strategy | New technology can get news out quickly and link interested citizens all over the country. |
| Issue Public | Part of the public that is directly affected by or deeply concerned with a government policy. |
| The "Dirty Dozen" | A lobbying group that claimed that voting against bills on the environment were necessary to protect the environment. |
| (NRA) National Rifle Association | A group dedicated to shooting instruction and to have and use firearms. |
| (PAC) Political Action Committee | Organizations set up to raise money from individual donors that is given to favored political allies in and out of Congress. |
| The "Revolving Door" | Exchanges favors that may give private interest a way to improperly influence government decisions. |
| Federal Regulation of Lobbying Act(1946) | Requires groups and individuals seeking to influence legislation to register with the secretary of the Senate and the clerk of the house and to file quarterly financial Reports. |
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