POLS 1101 Lecture 21 Outline of Last Lecture I Interest Groups II Interest Groups by Type III Social Movements IV Understanding Social Movements V Collective Dilemmas and Group Politics VI Strategies for Overcoming Collective action Problems VII Coordination Problems for Groups with Similar Goals Outline of Current Lecture I Determining Group Power II Access to Members of Congress III Inside and Outside Lobbying IV Major Laws on Lobbying V Campaign Financing VI Campaign Contributions A Prisoner s Dilemma VII In Comparison Interest Groups VIII Organized Forms of Public Pressure Current Lecture Interest Group Strategies for Influence I Determining Group Power Can be difficult to measure the effect of lobbying a Many factors might influence a legislator s vote b Interest groups tend to lobby those who favor their cause already Pluralism in American politics a Interests of the wealthy are overrepresented II Access to Members of Congress Legislators tend to grant more access to two types of groups a Groups that represent constituents b Groups that contribute to their campaigns Electoral connection III Inside and Outside Lobbying Inside lobbying a Interest groups making direct contact with policy makers b e g meeting with legislators giving money Outside lobbying a Mobilizing people outside the legislature to put pressure on policy makers b e g letter writing advertisements protests IV Major Laws on Lobbying Test Questions V Campaign Financing Interest groups give billions of dollars per year to federal candidates Helps get the group access and attention in the future VI Campaign Contributions A Prisoner s Dilemma VII In Comparison Interest Groups U S has more active and numerous interest groups than other democracies a More points of access pluralism Parliamentary democracies have few points of access Laws in other countries restrict kinds of lobbying a Corporatist style of interest representation VIII Organized Forms of Public Pressure Interest groups and social movements are organized clumps of public opinion a Often biased unrepresentative of all opinion b Many people and issues are not represented by any group
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