Exam 13: Interest Groups

Interest groups that potentially compete for the same constituency avoid mutually destructive poaching on issues and constituencies through informal accommodations and deference to each other's turf.

What is the difference between moral and selective incentives? Give examples of groups founded on each.

Why does the competition between competing groups lead to policy gridlock?

What are the differences between insider and outsider tactics and what determines which strategy a group uses?

Why does modern politics breed professional lobbyists?

Which of the following statements about PACs is true?

Business organizations and other groups representing well-heeled interests still account for the large share of lobbying expenditures.

There is a common assumption about pluralist politics that government programs emerge in response to interest group demands.

Interest group leaders and their constituents are involved in what relationship with all the familiar problems and challenges such relationships pose?

Why do lawmakers want information about public policies?

Specialized, fragmented groups are not dependent on members of Congress or White House officials to build and lead legislative coalitions.

Lobbying is defined as ______.

What did the experiences of walnut growers and poultry men in 1959 illustrate about the success of interest groups?

Which of the following criticisms of interest groups is most accurate?

Prominent public interest groups like Common Cause and Public Citizen that rely on moral incentives find that ______.

How does the Constitution encourage the creation of interest groups in the United States and what were some of the early observations of them?

Why do factions continue to raise serious problems for American democracy?

The experiences of Uber demonstrate that ______.

Why did David Truman and other scholars argue that the American political system was particularly conducive to pluralist politics?

Groups like the "Occupy" movement and Tea Party have galvanized sizable segments of society and will likely inspire other groups because ______.