Ch. 13 - Interest Groups

Grassroots lobbying

lobbying conducted by rank and file members of an interest group, by normal people.

insider vs outsider tactics

Interest group activity that includes normal lobbying, working closeley with members of congress, contributing money to incumbents campaigns

Moral Incentives

personal satisfactions of active self expression through contribution or involvement to social causes

policy gridlocks

political paralysis in the face of pressing national problems, unable to act

political action committee

federally registered fund raising groups that pools money from individuals to give political candidates and partiies

public interest lobby

group that promotes some conception of public intererst rather than the narrowly defined economic or other special interests of its members