The Iron Triangle & Issue Networks

issue networks

network that consists of people in interest groups, on congressional staffs, in bureaucratic agencies, in universities, and in the mass media who regularly debate an issue

iron triangles #1

alliances among bureaucrats, interest groups, and congressional subcommittee members and staff sometimes form to promote their common causes

also known as subgovernments

iron triangles #2

pattern of relationships between a bureaucratic agency, congressional committee, and interest group

mutually dependent upon one another and work together to achieve goals

three parts of the iron triangle

congress, bureaucracy, and interest groups

iron triangle example

EA: NASA
IG: US Space

CC: Science, Space, & Technology