Exam 16: Advocacy groups, social movements, and lobbying

Many MPs have close corporate connections and function regularly as lobbyists for big business.

The Canadian Federation of Agriculture is more of a radical group than the National Farmer's Union.

The close relationship that sometimes develops between an advocacy group and the government department with which it regularly deals is called a clientele relationship.

Canadian Aboriginal and women's groups use the United Nations to further their domestic causes.

Which behaviour refers to any organized attempt to influence the authorities?

Advocacy groups tend to increase their public profile once an election has been called.

What group produces the annual Alternative Federal Budget document?

What are some of the differences and similarities between business and non-business interest groups?

What is meant by the term "functional representation"?

Under the Federal Accountability Act, what reform was made to lobbying practices?

Advocacy groups that are permanent, well-established, formal organizations, usually with a head office in Ottawa, are known as issue-oriented groups.

What are the functions of advocacy groups?

What lobbying technique are institutionalized advocacy groups most likely to use?

Under whose administration did lobbyist efforts switch from minister's office to the level of senior bureaucracy?

Which statement does NOT describe pressure groups?

Many advocacy groups, including teachers and nurses, are actually more strongly organized at the provincial level than at the federal level.

Which organization is an example of an issue-oriented pressure group?

How do interest groups try to influence the bureaucracy and the executive branch of the government?

The Gomery Report on the Quebec sponsorship scandal under Chrétien supported further revisions to the lobbying registration scheme.

Discuss three explanations for why advocacy groups are sometimes successful and sometimes not.