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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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