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# Interst Groups Influencing Policy Making
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## Pluralism
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The idea that a magnitude of views will ultimately find a consensus on some issues
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## Lobbying
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applying pressure ot influence the government in order to get them to do something in the group's favor
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## Big Idea: Multiple actors and institutions to produce and implement possible policies
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## Free-Rider Problem
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lack of resources in smaller groups.
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## Iron Triangle
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an illustration of the relationships between a congressional comittee, and agency, and the interest group.
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## Issue Networks
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groups with a collective goal. Work together to support the solution to a specific issue
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## Direct Lobbying
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directly trying to influence the legislators. writing op-eds, press releases, television, print advertizing. Calling directly: all forms of direct lobbying
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## Lobbyists
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people who work on establishing relationships with legislators in order to help the person/group they are lobbying for
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## Legislative Activity
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??? does not exist ???
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## Think as a Political Scientist:
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Use the table below to answer the questions that follow
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1. What conclusions can be made from the information presented in the table?
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it can be made out that men are more affected by smoking than women
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2. What information would make the table more useful to lawmakers as they crafted the 2009 law?
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displaying the same information for all the idfferent categories. such as putting cornary heart disease in with those who actually get that who are not secondhand smoke people
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3. What information might the tabacco industry want shown to defend their product?
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the amount of people who do not die from their products
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4. How could this data have been presented in a different visual format to convey the information more clearly?
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showing bar charts that would show where the discrepancy of the death between the different people/demographics
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## Social Media
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can influence the general populus which will influence the legilator
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## Implementation
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??? not in the text?!
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## Electoral Activity
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## Other Activity
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## 501(c)(3)/501(c)(4) groups
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501c3 churches, hospitals. tax deductions. can influence but are not allowed to lobby government officials or donate to campaigns
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501c4 is allowed to spend on political things. but cant be more than half of expenditures
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## Endorsement
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person's/company's expression of support that is public
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## Grassroots lobying
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mobalizing large numbers of people in order to work on an issue
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## Essential Question: What are the benefits and potential problems of interest-group influence on elections and policy making?
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1. Benefits of interest groups-
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gets politics moveing as well as demonstrating some of the public's opinions
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2. Drawbacks of interest groups-
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can influence too much of the government and typically allows the most resource people to have the most influence on the government
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