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

The revolving door phenomenon refers to ______.

The founder of the Canadian activist group Adbusters, Kalle Lasn, created a blog entry in July 2011 that many credit as the origin of which movement?

A group advocating for the reduction of taxes on the sale of organic vegetables would be classified as which type of group?

In a pluralistic society, the distribution of power among many competing groups serves to keep any one of them in check.

A problem with collective goods is that people will be happy to benefit from something they can enjoy or profit from, without contributing any time, effort, or money of their own to achieve that good. Such individuals are called ______.

Which of the following groups would act on the behalf of the French Government to keep their members apprised of policy discussions during the appropriations process in Congress?

Members of Occupy Wall Street would most likely believe in the ______ theory of interest groups, which focuses on the advantages certain interests have in the political process based on the unequal distribution of economic and political power.

Which of the following groups acts on behalf of the collective interests of a broad group of individuals, including nonmembers of the group?

Which term best describes goods that are made available only to those who join or contribute to a group?

Which of the following, because of its efforts to right a perceived social wrong, would be considered an interest group that spawned a social movement?

What policy decision did banks want the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department to make?

Labor groups account for the largest number and the largest amount of campaign donations of all categories.

Small, homogeneous, and economically powerful interest groups are at a disadvantage when compared with the power of broad, diverse, voluntary associations of individuals who come together to form a social movement.

When a group manufactures or presents the facade of grassroots support that does not really exist on its own or at least would not have happened without the "purchase" of support by the lobbying firm itself, political scientists refer to this as ______.

According to reporter John Ennis, the rally cry for the Occupy Wall Street movement was ______.

Like other participation-based assemblies in the world, Occupy Wall Street operated on consensus.

According to the research of C. Wright Mills, the greatest challenge is found in the ______.

Which of the following is a concern for social movements?

The set of issues to which government officials, voters, and the public attend is known as the ______ agenda.

In evaluating the membership of groups, most of the evidence points to ______.