Exam 10: Interest Groups

What is the relationship between interest groups and government? How does this apply to government-created interest groups? Provide examples.What are the effects of bureaucrats as interest groups? Do you believe this crossover between bureaucrats and interest groups to be right?

How is the following question exemplary of Olson's theory of interest groups? Why should Europeans contribute much to NATO when the Americans provide them with free security?

__________ aid(s) smaller organizations in fending off more powerful interest groups.

Is it accurate that, as pluralists believe, no interest group can monopolize power?

By deregulating reasonable safeguards, __________ bears much responsibility for debacles like that connected with Enron.

What is the central paradox surrounding voters and their elected leaders?

The National Rifle Association is an example of an interest group that seeks the support of primarily one party, in that it tilts strongly toward __________ candidates.

Interest groups and political parties are the same, except political parties work through elected representatives and interest groups do not.

A common scenario with government-created interest groups is: Congress creates a program, the program creates an interest group, and then __________.

Many are convinced that __________ buy Congress with campaign contributions and favors given by corporations.

What was Teddy Roosevelt's reaction to the big-money politics of his predecessor, President McKinley?

Women's rights, the death penalty, and gun control are examples of __________ issues addressed and dealt with by the U.S.Supreme Court.

Describe a "stalemate society."

Federal officials on the take are usually __________ rather than __________.

Who generally belongs to interest groups?

Why did Occupy Wall Street protesters take to direct protest?

There are rarely more than __________ or so political parties, for several reasons, including the length of a ballot.

Explain what keeps the doors of Congress open to interest groups.

Many top former administration officials and some 200 former senators and congresspeople shifting into careers as extremely highly-paid D.C.lobbyists is an example of __________.

Describe how bureaucracies see their tasks.