Exam 11: Interest Groups

According to Philippe Schmitter and Wolfgang Streeck, a group's capacity for influence within a policy community will depend on its internal relationships to the larger political system of the state. They call these logics of which of the following?

According to John Kingdon, interest groups may use which of the following to influence what gets on the policy agenda and the alternatives considered by policy makers?

Which of the following is a macro-political factor that is important to understanding the political influence of organized interests?

Which term refers to the set of state institutions and interest groups usually involved in making and implementing policy in some field?

What does E.E. Schattschneider argue about the interest group system?

Groups that are not well established within a policy community are more likely to rely on which of the following to catch the attention of policy-makers to respond to their interests?

Which term may be defined as any form or direct or indirect communication with government that is designed to influence public policy?

What year was the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives founded?

"The [interest group] system is skewed, loaded and unbalanced in favor of a fraction of a minority." Does this observation, made by American political scientist E.E. Schattschneider, apply to present day Canada?

Which type of lobbyists will, for a fee, work for various clients?

Roughly, 1,000 groups made representations and submitted briefs to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples during its six months of public hearings.

What did David Vogel argue about business influence in his rebuttal to Charles Lindblom?

What is referred to as "the revolving door"?

Which of the following is an element of interest and pressure groups?

What type of stereotype does lobbying conjure up?

A 2009 by the Ontario Trillium Foundation reported that about two-thirds of non-profit groups said their funding had increased compared to the previous year.

What year was the Court Challenges Program started?

Business interest groups are less influential with the government because they only represent a small minority of voters.

Pluralism suggests that to influence government you must organize into groups.

Arthur Bentley argued that society can be understood without consideration of groups.