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van Deth Jan W Politicisation and Political Interest in Europe A MultiLevel Approach Jan W van Deth Martin Elff. 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). What are political parties. . Organizations of people with similar ideas that are formed to win elections.. What are political parties. Political parties can form from factions. . Washington warned against factions tearing the country apart.. Tactics, and Federal Regulation . Interest groups’ tactics for attempting to influence . government . action (or inaction) fall in to 4 general categories:. 1) Lobbying. 2) Electioneering. 3) Litigation. 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. Political Parties, . and . Mass Media. Unit 4. 1. PAY ATTENTION. 2. Lesson . 20. 136-148. (5.1. ) . Interest Groups Past and Present. – . (5.2. ) . Types of Interest Groups. 3. WHAT WERE INTEREST GROUPS ACCORDING TO JAMES MADISON. Why 1450? Start of the Renaissance, Age of Exploration. Why 1648? End of the 30 Years’ War, Peace of Westphalia. Big Events: Renaissance, Reformation, Scientific Revolution, Age of Exploration, Religious Wars, Development of New Monarchs, Witch-Hunting, Military Revolution . Political Participation. Individual Political Action (. foot soldiers, extremist activists,. political leaders. The Foundations of Christian Society in Western Society. Before we start:. Up to 30 percent of the national exam is drawn from western European content.. Think about comparisons and contrasts you could make with other places during this era:. 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.. NOTICE. Most of the material, including graphics, are derived from:. Harm de . Blij. , Peter O. Muller, Jan Nijman (2014) Geography: Realms, Regions and Concepts, 16th Edition, New York: Wiley.. The above owns the copyrights of this material.. The End stages of European Terrorism?. 1. Defining Terrorism. According to the scholar Paul Wilkinson, the key identifiable characteristics of political terror are as follows:. Indiscriminate. Unpredictability. Political Parties, PACs, Lobbying, and Interest Groups Political Parties What are Political Parties? Organizations of people with similar ideas that are formed to win elections. What are PACs (Political Action Committees)? Ways of the World: A Brief Global History First Edition CHAPTER 10 The Worlds of European Christendom: Connected and Divided 500–1300 Copyright © 2009 by Bedford/St. Martin’s Robert W. Strayer a nd Inter - Generational Differences In Southern Europe Panel C hairs : Roula Nezi , University of Surrey , s.nezi@surrey.ac.uk ; Kathrin Busch , GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences ,