https://padlet.com/518285/h6r8nar8x9gq Role of Intrest Groups en-us 2018-03-16 15:27:56 UTC 2025-10-22 10:39:50 UTC hello@padlet.com 518285 https://padlet.com/518285/h6r8nar8x9gq/wish/243575625 Interest groups are any organization of people with policy goals who work within the political process to promote such goals. These groups attempt to influence policy in various ways such as: Lobbying government Organized interests hire representatives to advocate on behalf of the group's interests.]]> 2018-03-19 15:38:09 UTC https://padlet.com/518285/h6r8nar8x9gq/wish/243575625 518285 https://padlet.com/518285/h6r8nar8x9gq/wish/243580288 people who unite for some political purpose. These two types of political orginizations necessarily overlap in a number but differ in three groups: In the making of nominations, in their primary focus, and in the scope of their intrests. 

political parties: A group of political activists who organize to win elections, operate the government, and determine public policy.]]> 2018-03-19 15:44:19 UTC https://padlet.com/518285/h6r8nar8x9gq/wish/243580288 518285 https://padlet.com/518285/h6r8nar8x9gq/wish/243588031 2018-03-19 15:55:07 UTC https://padlet.com/518285/h6r8nar8x9gq/wish/243588031 518285 https://padlet.com/518285/h6r8nar8x9gq/wish/243593189 Organization meant to influence government policy with limited issue agendas (NOT trying to take seats in government [Political Party]) 

good: Pluralism: competing interests mean no majority dominates the minority
Information: interest groups cut information costs for citizens, provide specialized policy information and heuristics
Mobilization: interest groups pull people into politics; especially important as parties decline

bad: Activists tend to be extremists
Iron Triangles: the policy-making relationship among the congressional committees, the bureaucracy and interest groups.]]> 2018-03-19 16:02:03 UTC https://padlet.com/518285/h6r8nar8x9gq/wish/243593189