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Chapter 10 Vocabulary

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Across
Groups that have a narrow interest, tend to dislike compromise, and often draw membership from people new to politics.
Direct group involvement in the electoral process, for example, by helping to fund campaigns, getting members to work for candidates, and forming political action committees.
According to Jeffrey Berry, organi- zations that seek “a collective good, the achievement of which will not selectively and materially benefit the membership or activists of the organization.”
Subgovernments are composed of interest group leaders interested in a particular policy, the government agency in charge of administering that policy, and the members of congre ssional committees and subcommittees handling that policy
The people in the potential group who actually join.
A state law forbidding requirements that workers must join a union to hold their jobs.
All the people who might be interest group members because they share some common interest.
According to Lester Milbrath, a “communication, by someone other than a citizen acting on his or her own behalf, directed to a governmental decision maker with the hope of influencing his or her decision.”
Down
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.
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.
An organization of people with shared policy goals entering the policy process at several points to try to achieve those goals. Interest groups pursue their goals in many arenas.
Goods that a group can restrict to those who actually join.
Something of value that cannot be withheld from a potential group member.
For a group, the problem of people not joining because they can benefit from the group’s activities without joining.
A theory of government and politics contending that groups are so strong that government, seeking to please them all, is thereby weakened.
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.