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| 4901030784 | Interest Group | An organization of people with shared policy goals entering the policy process at several points to try to achieve those goals. | 0 | |
| 4901030785 | Pluralism | A theory of government and politics emphasizing that many groups, each pressing for its preferred policies, compete and counterbalance one another in the political marketplace. | 1 | |
| 4901030786 | Elitism | A theory of government and politics contending that an upper-class elite will hold most of the power and thus in effect run the government. | 2 | |
| 4901030787 | Hyperpluralism | A theory of government and politics contending that groups are so strong that government, seeking to please them all, is thereby weakened. | 3 | |
| 4901030788 | Iron Triangles | Sub governments are composed of interest group leaders interested in a particular policy, the government agency in charge of administering that policy, and the members of congressional committees and subcommittees handling that policy; they exercise a great deal of control over specific policy areas. | 4 | |
| 4901030789 | Potential Group | All the people who might be interested group members because they share common interests. | 5 | |
| 4901030790 | Actual group | The people in the potential group who actually join. | 6 | |
| 4901030791 | Collective Good | Something of value that cannot be withheld from a potential group member. | 7 | |
| 4901030792 | Free-Rider Problem | For a group, the problem of people not joining because they can benefit from the group's activities without joining. | 8 | |
| 4901030793 | Selective Benefits | Goods that a group can restrict to those who actually join. | 9 | |
| 4901030794 | Single-Issue Groups | Groups that have a narrow interest, tend to dislike compromise, and often draw membership from people new to politics. | 10 | |
| 4901030795 | Lobbying | A "communication, by someone other than a citizen acting on his or her behalf, directed to a governmental decision maker with the hope of influencing his or her decision." | 11 | |
| 4901030796 | Electioneering | Direct group involvements in the electoral process, for example, by helping fund campaigns, getting members to work for candidates, and forming political action committees. | 12 | |
| 4901030797 | Political Action Comittees | Groups that raise money from individuals and then distribute it in the form of contributions to candidates that the group supports. | 13 | |
| 4901030798 | Union Shop | A provision found in some collective bargaining agreements requiring all employees of a business to join the union within a short period, usually 30 days, and to remain members as a condition of employment. | 14 | |
| 4901030799 | Right-To-Work Laws | A state law forbidding requirements that worker must join a union to hold their jobs. Specifically permitted by the Taft-Haley Act of 1947. | 15 | |
| 4901030800 | Public Interest Lobbies | Organizations that seek "a collective good, the achievement of which will not selectively and materially benefit the membership or activists of the organization." | 16 |
