PPT-Linkage Institutions: Interest Groups,

Political Parties and Mass Media Unit 4 1 PAY ATTENTION 2 Lesson 20 136148 51 Interest Groups Past and Present 52 Types of Interest Groups 3 WHAT WERE INTEREST GROUPS ACCORDING TO JAMES MADISON. Linkage institutions. Ideology. ideology. . a wide set of beliefs that an individual has on what a government should be doing . liberal. . ideology that generally wants the government to provide services for its people and is pro-choice. AP Government. Interest Groups. Interest Group. An . interest group is an organization of people with similar policy goals who enter the political process to try to achieve a particular policy . goal. Which of the following is the most powerful?. Voters. Government Agencies (Bureaucracy). Elected Officials. Political Parties. Special Interest Groups (SIG’s). (Average American is represented by interest groups - SIG’s influence all of these). C. ategorize them as: economic, environmental, equality, consumer/public interest, or professional/government. Which types benefit non-members, as well as members?. Bellringer. Interest Groups. Chapter 9 . AP Comparative Government. Political Institutions. Political institutions . are structures of a political system that carry out the work of governing. Just because countries have the same types of institutions does not mean that those institutions have the same powers. Interest Groups and Lobbyists. Interest Groups – organizations dedicated to a political goal or goals. Examples: NAACP, AMA, Sierra Club. Interest groups engage in lobbying. Origin: people would wait in the lobby of the Capitol trying to get to legislators as they came and went.. Interest Groups-. an organized group of people with common goals actively attempting to influence policymakers (government). Lobbyist- . an individual who attempts to influence legislation and government decisions. 11. .04.2014 . , Riga. Agnes . Kasper. LECTURE OUTLINE. INTRODUCTION. INSTITUTIONS AND ACTORS. LEGISLATIVE PROCESS. LOBBYING. EXAMPLES. REGULATION OF LOBBY. Policy process . What is policy?. Public policy process in brief. A striking feature of American politics is the extent to which political parties are supplemented by private associations formed to influence public policy. These organizations . . . promote their interests by attempting to influence government rather than by nominating candidates. . . . Such groups, while they may call themselves non-political, are engaged in politics; in the main theirs is a politics of policy.. organization or people with shared policy goals entering the policy process at several points to try to achieve those goals. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF RETIRED PERSONS. NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION. PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS. Warm Up?. What are the kinds of services provided by Government Agencies?. Enforcing Laws. EQ: Explain the various types of government agencies as well as how citizens can stay informed and participate in government?. What is an Interest Group?. It is an association of people who hold similar views or goals and try to influence public policy at every level of government. Interest Groups offer Americans an important means of influencing U.S. public policy. They are formed around many issues, such as public interest, social issues and economics.. Students?. Potato Farmers?. Schools?. Types of Interest Groups. Public Interest. Economic Interests. Professional Groups. Ideological Groups. Single-Issue Groups. Types of Interest Groups. Public Interest. As there are more genes than chromosomes, it can be expected that each chromosome contains more than one gene.. The genes for different characters may be either situated on the same chromosome or on different chromosome..