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Joining with others that have similar views as you is fundamental to the democratic process. They are also known as pressure groups, special interests, organized interests, and lobbies. Anyway they label themselves, interest groups want to use public policy to their advantage. They operate wherever they can infiltrate the policies are being influenced. Our society is a pluralistic one where many cultures and groups need to work together to have a working society.

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1. Some interest groups have an influence far out of proportion to their size, or, for that matter, to their importance or contribution to the public good.
2. It is sometimes hard to tell just who or how many people a group really represents.
3. Many groups do not in fact represent the views of all of the people for whom they claim to speak.
4. Some groups use tactics that, if they were to become widespread, would undermine the whole political system.

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Interest groups help to stimulate interest in public affairs. Interest groups represent their members on the basis of shared attitudes rather than on the basis of geography. Organized interests often provide useful, specialized, and detailed information to government. Interest groups are vehicles for political participation. Interest groups add another element to the checks-and-balances feature of the political process. Interest groups regularly compete with one another in the public arena.

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Most interest groups unite over political purposes. Political parties are different, however, in the making of nominations, their primary focus, and in the scope of their interests. Nominations and candidates is primarily a political party thing. Interest groups are interested in the outcome of nominations and elections but don't themselves pick the candidates. Interest groups don't want to appeal to everybody so they are allowed to have opinion on controversial topics.

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Interest Groups: Crash Course Government and Politics #42