CPS Vocab: Chapter 10

Organization of people with shared policy goals entering the policy process at several points to try to achieve those goals * Pursue goals in many areas

Theory of government and politics emphasizing that many groups, each pressing for its preferred policies, compete and counterbalance one another in the political marketplace

Theory of government and policies contending that an upper-class elite will hold most of the power and therefore run the government

Theory of government and politics contending that groups are so strong that government, seeking to please them all, is thereby weakened

Composed of.. *Interest group leaders interested in a particular policy * The government agency in charge of administering that policy * The members of congressional committees and subcommittees handling that policy »Exercise a great deal of control over specific policy areas«

Emphasizes the purpose and accomplishments of the group

Alliances of various interest groups, government officials, and policy experts that form around specific policy issues

All the people who might be interest group members because they share some common interest

The people in the potential group who actually join

Something of value that cannot be withheld from a potential group member

For a group, the problem of people not joining because they can benefit from the groups activities without joining

Goods that a group can restrict to those who actually join

Groups that have a narrow interest, tend to dislike compromise, and often draw membership from people new to politics

Communication (by someone other than a citizen acting on his or her own behalf) directed to a governmental decision maker with the hope of influencing his or her decision

Direct group involvement in the electoral process

Groups that raise money from individuals and then distribute it in the form of contributions to candidates that the group supports

Provision found in some collective bargaining agreements requiring all employees of a business to join the union within a short period and to remain members as a condition of employment

A state law forbidding requirements that workers must join a union to hold their jobs (specifically permitted by the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947)

Organizations that seek a collective good, the achievement of which will not selectively and materially benefit the membership or activists of the organization