Exam 13: Interest Groups

A) have no respect for the law
B) are in a hurry to bring change and do not want to use more traditional methods
C) are shut out of more traditional avenues of political action
D) have the sympathy of the public
E) only want to take advantage of the media coverage that traditional techniques cannot generate

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A) National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
B) Tax Policy Center
C) Better World Campaign
D) Center for Global Development

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A) Americans for Job Security
B) Freedom Partners
C) Chamber of Commerce
D) ALFA International

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A) purchase a foothold with members of the minority party in Congress, who will favor those interest groups when they rise to the majority party
B) purchase the votes of all representatives or senators who are on the fence about a particular issue
C) flex their political muscles to their competing interest groups
D) buy access to representatives, senators, the White House, and their staffs
E) take advantage of the tax benefits enjoyed through political rather than corporate spending

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A) their members are not interested in the group's collective benefit
B) they have no collective benefit to offer their members
C) collective benefits cannot be kept from those who do not join the group, and the group needs paying members to join
D) there are too few potential members for the group to be effective
E) their members are too wealthy to join the group for the collective benefit

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A) presenting misleading polls to members of Congress
B) taking members of Congress to sporting events
C) lobbying efforts directed at congressional staff members
D) advertisements that support issues or candidates without telling constituents how to vote
E) indirect lobbying efforts that manipulate public sentiment

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A) Numerous groups push for equal treatment of women and reproductive rights, and numerous others push to narrow reproductive rights and favor a more traditional role for women in society.
B) The number of women's interest groups pales in comparison to the number of pro-men interest groups.
C) All women's groups lobby for equal rights, reproductive rights, and equal pay for equal work.
D) Liberal women's groups push to get more women elected to office, whereas conservative women's groups have worked to minimize the number of women elected to office.
E) All women's interest groups lobby to increase women's reproductive rights.

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A) more often than
B) less often than
C) about as often as

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A) Effective leadership
B) Collective goods
C) Connections in Washington, D.C.
D) A triggering mechanism
E) A common problem or threat

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A) Second Amendment groups
B) environmental groups
C) religious groups
D) equal opportunity business groups
E) government interest groups

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A) representing their members' views to government
B) electing members to public office
C) providing an avenue for citizen participation in politics
D) educating policymakers regarding issues important to the interest group
E) alerting the proper government authorities about the group's issue to get the issue on the political agenda

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A) consumer groups
B) unions
C) professional associations
D) corporations
E) agricultural interest groups

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A) freedom of the press
B) religious freedom
C) free speech
D) gun control
E) reproductive rights

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A) spend huge amounts of money on campaign donations
B) sponsor public demonstrations
C) are organized around shared interests among members
D) provide exclusive benefits to members in order to keep them loyal
E) have all potential members in society defined and loyal to their cause

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