Interest Groups and Lobbying Chapter 6. Interest Groups and Lobbying.
Chapter 6: Interest Groups
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Chapter 6: Interest Groups
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Linkage Institutions
• Interest Groups are one of three main linkage institutions.
• Interest Groups
• Media
• Political Parties
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What is a L.I.?
• An entity that links the people to the govenrment.
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What do interest groups do?
• express group members preferences to policy members
• Convey policy information to group memebers
• raise and spend money to advocate for the interest of the group with policymakers.
• Inform policy makers of issues
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How do they do this?
• Letterwriting• Campaign activities• Lobbying• Grass roots organizations• Litigation• Media campaigns• Disseminating information to the public about
government affairs.
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Lobbying
• Lobbyists inform members of Congress on certain issues, what people want, and provide money for upcoming elections.
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PACS
• Political Action Committees
• Parts of the interest groups that raise money to give to candidates.
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FEC
• In charge of monitoring money.
• Allowed for PACS to give unlimited amounts of money: “soft money.”
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FECA
• Federal Elections Campaign Act
• 1971: cannot say “vote for” or vote against (issue advocacy) 1971
• Groups instead “bash” or promote candidates without those words.
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BCRA
• Bipartisan Campagin reform act--McCain Feingold Bill
• Limited ads 60 days before general election, and 30 days before a primary.
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BCRA continued….
• Bans corporations and unions from giving soft money.
• BCRA does not regulate what groups can do by phone, mail or in person.
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Money limitations
• PACS $5000 per election
• PACS $10,000 per election cycle (primary and general elctions)
• $4,000 per individual
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Soft Money
• Political Parties got around this through the use of soft money
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K Street
• Street in Washington D.C. filled with think tanks, interest/”advocacy” groups and lobbying firms.
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Citizens United vs. FEC
• Landmark case that will not be updated on the AP exam, so stick with the old!!!!!!
• Says corporations are people, cannot prohibit free speech before elections.
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Hillary the Movie
• Citizens United wanted to air before elections.
• BCRA/McCain Feingold says “no”
• Supreme Court says yes: cannot limit free speech of citizens or their arms for communication.
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Iron Triangles
• A mutually dependent relationship among interest groups, congressional committees and subcommittees and government agencies that share a common policy concern.
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Revolving Door
• Employment cycle in which individuals who work for governmental agencies regulating interests eventually end up working for interest groups or businesses with the same policy concern.
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