6. Interest Groups- How They Shape Policy Types of Lobbyists 1) Paid employee of union, association, corporation 2) Temp. Lobbyists. How They Help 1) Source of information 2) Can help politicians with political strategies for getting legislation through 3) Can help formulate campaign strategy and get the group members behind a politicians reelection campaign 4) Source of ideas and innovations
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17. Surprising Ineffectiveness of Large Groups Pressure politics most effective from small group Potential Group vs. Actual Group logic of collective good can equal free rider problem Olson’s law of large groups bigger group= bigger free riders. This makes small groups more effective. Explains why corporate interests more effective in groups than consumer interests. Provide selective benefits to members to overcome this dilemma
18. Interest Groups Equal advantage is intensity - and single issue groups are on the rise. swem.wm.edu/beta/flathat/issues/fh20041029SS.pdf http://women4hope.files.wordpress.com/2007/09/pro-life-cartoon.gif http://www.wmsa.net/People/john_mccain/keating.jpg Money counts What do you think? Are recipients of money influenced in their votes?
19. Interest Groups Hall and Deardorff - lobbying as a form of “legislative subsidy” where they define as a “matching grant of costly policy information, political intelligence, and labor to the enterprises of strategically selected legislatures” *purpose of such a strategy is not to change anyone’s mind but rather to help one’s political allies. http://www.wmsa.net/People/john_mccain/keating.jpg
20. Interest Groups -- Concerns Lobbying as shady business or as strict professional representation of legitimate interests? Municipal government lobbyists Electioneering via PACs Corporate Welfare http://www.wmsa.net/People/john_mccain/keating.jpg
21. Interest Groups -- Types Economic - regulation policies, subsidies, tax code, international quotas/tariffs Labor - right to work, union shops, labor interest groups Environmental- Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Equality- NAACP and NOW Consumer Interest- Nader http://www.wmsa.net/People/john_mccain/keating.jpg