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Title: Chapter 6: Interest Groups


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Chapter 6 Interest Groups
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Linkage Institutions
  • Interest Groups are one of three main linkage
    institutions.
  • Interest Groups
  • Media
  • Political Parties

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What is a L.I.?
  • An entity that links the people to the
    govenrment.

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What do interest groups do?
  • express group members preferences to policy
    members
  • Convey policy information to group memebers
  • raise and spend money to advocate for the
    interest of the group with policymakers.
  • Inform policy makers of issues

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How do they do this?
  • Letterwriting
  • Campaign activities
  • Lobbying
  • Grass roots organizations
  • Litigation
  • Media campaigns
  • Disseminating information to the public about
    government affairs.

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Lobbying
  • Lobbyists inform members of Congress on certain
    issues, what people want, and provide money for
    upcoming elections.

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PACS
  • Political Action Committees
  • Parts of the interest groups that raise money to
    give to candidates.

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FEC
  • In charge of monitoring money.
  • Allowed for PACS to give unlimited amounts of
    money soft money.

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FECA
  • Federal Elections Campaign Act
  • 1971 cannot say vote for or vote against
    (issue advocacy) 1971
  • Groups instead bash or promote candidates
    without those words.

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BCRA
  • Bipartisan Campagin reform act--McCain Feingold
    Bill
  • Limited ads 60 days before general election, and
    30 days before a primary.

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BCRA continued.
  • Bans corporations and unions from giving soft
    money.
  • BCRA does not regulate what groups can do by
    phone, mail or in person.

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Money limitations
  • PACS 5000 per election
  • PACS 10,000 per election cycle (primary and
    general elctions)
  • 4,000 per individual

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Soft Money
  • Political Parties got around this through the use
    of soft money

14
K Street
  • Street in Washington D.C. filled with think
    tanks, interest/advocacy groups and lobbying
    firms.

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Citizens United vs. FEC
  • Landmark case that will not be updated on the
    AP exam, so stick with the old!!!!!!
  • Says corporations are people, cannot prohibit
    free speech before elections.

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Hillary the Movie
  • Citizens United wanted to air before elections.
  • BCRA/McCain Feingold says no
  • Supreme Court says yes cannot limit free speech
    of citizens or their arms for communication.

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Iron Triangles
  • A mutually dependent relationship among interest
    groups, congressional committees and
    subcommittees and government agencies that share
    a common policy concern.

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Revolving Door
  • Employment cycle in which individuals who work
    for governmental agencies regulating interests
    eventually end up working for interest groups or
    businesses with the same policy concern.

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