Question 1

Grandparents, tall people, and undergraduate are alll example of

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Potential interest groups

Question 2

The best description of the ideal of pluralism is that

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interests should be free to compete with each other for governmental influence

Question 3

James Madison called an interest group a

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Faction

Question 4

_______ once wrote that \"America was a nation of joiners.\"

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Alexis de Tocqueville

Question 5

Members of interest groups in the United States are typically people

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with higher levels of income and education.

Question 6

Interest groups most effectively serve_______

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the upper classes

Question 7

Which group is best adapted to organizing the lower classes?

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a political party

Question 8

What are political parties more capable of doing than interest groups?

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organizing people on a mass scale

Question 9

Public interest groups differ from other types of interest groups in that

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Public-interest groups focus on the roles that all americans share; they represent the people as citizens - actual people. Other interest groups are created to gain federal funding for specific groups of people that share similarities

Question 10

When a coalition of credit card companies form an interest group called the Partnership to Protect Consumer Credit, this indicates

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that private interests are hiding behind the ideals of public innterests

Question 11

It is difficult for political scientists to categorize unrepresented interests because

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there are no organization that can present their identities and demands

Question 12

What is the primary variable for predicting the likelihood of joining an interest group?

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having a higher income and education

Question 13

The teamsters and the american federation of labor and congress of industrial organizations are examples of

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labor unions

Question 14

Organized interest groups enhance American democracy by

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representing the interests of large numbers of people and encouraging political participaition

Question 15

Interest groups are concerned with the _______ of government, while political parties are concerned with the _______ of government.

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policies; personnel

Question 16

The Christian Coalition is a(n) _______ group

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an ideological group

Question 17

The National Governor\'s Association is a good example of a _____.

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state and local governments acting as organized interests to lobby for government benefits

Question 18

Which of the following statements about political parties and interests groups is most accurate?

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the percentage of voters identifying themselves as either Democrats or Republicans has been declining since the 1970

Question 19

Which of the following is a main theoretical assumption of pluralism?

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competition among interests will produce balance, with all interests regulating each other

Question 20

A criticism of interest group pluralism is

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its class bias in favor of those with greater financial resources

Question 21

If one enjoys the benefit of a group\'s collective efforts but did NOT contribute to those efforts, one is called a

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free rider

Question 22

One way that AARP has been effective at overcoming the free-rider problem is by providing ______ benefits to its members.

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selective

Question 23

Why is it important for interest groups to offer selective benefits?

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it i necessary to limit the the extent f the free-rider problem

Question 24

Which of the following is NOT a key organizational component of interest groups?

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newsletter and website

Question 25

Successful interest groups quickly become ________.

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bureaucratized

Question 26

When a group is called a membership association, it means that

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members play an important role in the daily activities of the group

Question 27

A ________ exists when paid staff conduct most of the daily business of a group.

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staff organization

Question 28

A benefit that is sought by an interest group and that once achieved cannot be denied to nonmembers is called a ________.

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collective good

Question 29

The solidary benefits of interest groups include ________.

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Selective benefits of group membership that emphasizes friendship, networking, and consciousness raising

Question 30

AARP has approximately ________ members today.

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39,000,000

Question 31

Many interest groups are initially organized because

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a political entrepreneur with a strong commitment to a particular set of goals believes a group will promote and enhance his goals and political influence

Question 32

The free-rider problem occurs because

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the benefits of a group\'s actions are broadly available and cannot be denied to

Question 33

The free-rider phenomenon

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becomes increasingly problematic in very large groups

Question 34

When membership in an organization allows for a reduction in the price of museum tickets, it is called a ________.

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material benefit

Question 35

A ________ is the best example of an informational benefit provided by many interest groups.

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newsletter

Question 36

If citizens were motivated to join an environmental organization because they strongly believed in protecting the environment and supported the goals of the group, then we can conclude that they were motivated by ________.

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purposive benefits

Question 37

The major organizational factors shared by most interest groups are

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leadership,money,an agency, or office, and members

Question 38

Since the 1930s, the number and scale of interest groups at the national level has ________.

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dramatically increased

Question 39

What happened in the late nineteenth century?

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Yellow Journalism. A form of newspaper publishing in vogue in he late nineteenth century that featured pictures, comics, color, and sensationalized news coverage

Question 40

Which of the following issues is NOT part of the agenda of the New Politics movement?

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industrial deregulation

Question 41

The New Politics movement gave rise to ________ groups.

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public interest

Question 42

Which of the following groups was NOT established through the New Politics movement?

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national association of manufacturers

Question 43

The increased number and importance of interest groups

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is a response to an increase in the size and activity of government

Question 44

Which of the following groups is most likely to belong to the New Politics movement?

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upper-middle-class professionals, for whom the civil rights and antiwar movements of the 1960s were key experiences

Question 45

Members of the New Politics movement

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Public Interest Groups; upper-middle-class professionals and intellectuals

Question 46

A full-page, fully paid spread in the New York Times publicizing a major oil company is best described as ________.

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institutional advertising

Question 47

Lobbying is

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seek to influence ( a politician or public official) on an issue

Question 48

What is the most important and beneficial resource that lobbyists provide government officials?

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information

Question 49

Which of the following is NOT a job regularly performed by lobbyists?

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nominating a candidate to run for political office

Question 50

The practice of lobbying is protected by ________.

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the first amendment

Question 51

Another name for lobbying is ________.

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petitioning

Question 52

In the lobbying world, to be \"Microsofted\" means that a company has

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become vulnerable to adverse legislation and investigation as a result of failing to lobby the federal government

Question 53

The Negotiated Rulemaking Act of 1990 was designed to

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to encourage agencies to use negotiated rulemaking when it enhances the informal rulemaking process

Question 54

Parties with a direct interest in a regulatory rule or decision are often called ________.

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stake holders

Question 55

________ was an important Washington lobbyist who was indicted in 2005 on charges of violating federal lobbying laws.

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Jack Abramoff

Question 56

An iron triangle is made up of an alliance between

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a legislative committee an interest group an a executive agency

Question 57

A loose, informal relationship of public officials, interest groups, and activists who are all concerned with the same policies is called ________.

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issue network

Question 58

What is the most important attempt to limit the influence of lobbyists in recent years?

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the 1995 lobbying disclosure act

Question 59

Which of the following groups has had the greatest success with a strategy of litigation?

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the national association for the advancement of colored people

Question 60

How can interest groups use litigation as a strategy of influence?

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filing amici curiae briefs, financing lawsuits, and bringing a suit on behalf of the group

Question 61

Which of the following Supreme Court cases illustrates the use of litigation by an interest group?

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Webster v. reproductive health services

Question 62

________ is a strategy that attempts to mobilize the widest and most favorable climate of opinion.

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going public

Question 63

A grassroots lobbying campaign occurs

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when an interest group mobilizes it members and their families throughout the country to write their representatives in support of the group\'s position

Question 64

In recent years, the religious right has had a great effect on American politics through ________.

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grassroots mobilization

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