Exam 8: Interest Groups and Social Movements: Collective Action, Power, and Representation

A social movement is a voluntary association of people who try to get certain policies enacted by pulling the levers of political power in order to do so.

In the aftermath of the financial crisis and Wall Street bailout debate, many Americans were calling for ______ reform.

David Truman, in his 1962 book The Governmental Process, noted that the federalists were, ironically, an important example of a ______.

How do interest groups most often try to influence judicial decisions?

Many people join professional associations with the hope of networking with or meeting influential people in their field. This would be an example of which of the following?

Occupy Wall Street protesters were arrested for marching across what structure?

Which of the following describes the paradox of factions?

The danger in interest groups and social movements is always one of ______.

Voluntary associations of people that come together with an agreed-upon set of political and policy objectives and who attempt to pull the levers of political power in the service of these defined goals are known as ______.

A problem with mortgage-backed securities (MBS) was ______.

Interest groups rarely involve themselves in the election process.

By 2008, which of the following facts was becoming clear?

Voluntary associations share common traits in that they ______.

Why do some social movements meet with success while others simply die out or fail?

How did members of the financial industry as well as members of government use the threat of serious economic consequences to advance their agenda? What did many ordinary citizens do in response?

When interest groups try to influence both whether or not the Supreme Court will agree to hear a case, as well as how the justices should rule once they do agree to hear it, they do what?

Madison's solution to the problem of factions was to ______.

Because banks could not produce enough loans to supply the mortgage-backed securities market, they began to ______.

Two ways in which lobbyists use information to try to advance their interest group's positions are ______.

How did Congress respond to the impending threat of financial collapse brought on by the housing market bust?