POLS1 Study Guide - From Assignment No. 3 and the Influence of Diversity as Expressed in the Federalist Papers No. 10 Presentation:

The label that James Madison gave to interest groups

The "interest groups" James Madison was referring to were groups called factions. He believed that the basis for differences in factions are inevitable and a part of human nature.

James Madison's notion of the principle task of modern legislation

He says the principle task of modern legislation is dealing with the different and various interests we hold, and that "the spirit of party and faction in the necessary and ordinary operations of the government."

The Elite School of Thought

Supporters of this concept see society as dominated by unified and non-representative leaders often called the power elite.

The elite control government through the positions that its members occupy, does not have to come through individuals or pluralist groups but from institutions. You have to have a key role in a leading institution of the society.

Pluralism

Interest groups compete for power & advantage.

Hyper-Pluralism

Interest groups, policy makers, institutions,

political, parties, voters, businesses, moneyed interests all compete for thinly scattered power &

advantage

Multicultural Pluralism

Interest groups based upon Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Sexual Orientation compete for power & advantage