Exam 11: Groups and Interests

A) grassroots mobilization.
B) gaining access.
C) campaign financing.
D) iron triangles.

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A) more problematic in very large groups.
B) more problematic in very small groups.
C) not affected in any way by the size of the group in question.
D) not related to groups in any way because it is an individual-level problem.

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A) money
B) information
C) campaign workers
D) legal assistance

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A) citizen.
B) subject.
C) free rider.
D) lobbyist.

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A) with higher levels of income and education.
B) from the lower socioeconomic levels.
C) who work in manual labor and unskilled occupations.
D) who identify as Democrats.

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A) supports the agency's budgetary requests and the programs the interest group favors.
B) opposes the agency's budgetary requests and the programs the interest group favors.
C) files formal lawsuits and amicus briefs against administrative agencies and interest groups.
D) is legally excluded from any interactions with interest groups and administrative agencies.

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A) dramatically decreased the flow of money from interest groups, 527s, and Super PACs into politics and electoral campaigns.
B) dramatically increased the flow of money from interest groups, 527s, and Super PACs into politics and electoral campaigns.
C) prohibited 527s and Super PACs from donating to electoral campaigns but increased the amount of money interest groups could contribute.
D) prohibited interest groups from donating to electoral campaigns but increased the amount of money 527s and Super PACs could contribute.

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A) Congress of Racial Equality
B) American Civil Liberties Union
C) Human Rights Campaign
D) National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

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A) the public good should always trump individual interests.
B) interest groups should be free to compete for governmental influence.
C) interest groups are factions that endanger liberty.
D) democracy is best served by legalizing but regulating the influence of interest groups.

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A) tyranny of the majority.
B) undemocratic elitism.
C) governmental responsiveness.
D) economic equality.

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A) requires agencies to create opportunities for public comments before implementing new rules and regulations.
B) permits interest groups to spend an unlimited amount of money on issue advocacy during a campaign.
C) allows former agency officials to work for the industries they had regulated within six months of leaving government service.
D) extends First Amendment protection to interest groups trying to lobby executive agencies.

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A) selective
B) elective
C) free-rider
D) public good

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A) government programs that provide tax cuts for people at the top of the income distribution.
B) government programs that distribute food, housing, or monetary assistance to people who make less than a predetermined amount of money each year.
C) incentives that interest groups make available only to those people who are members of their organizations.
D) incentives that interest groups distribute to people who do not belong to their organizations in order to win public support for their causes.

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A) mob.
B) faction.
C) plutocracy.
D) social movement.

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A) friendship and consciousness raising.
B) special services and goods.
C) information and money.
D) identification with the purpose or ideology of the group.

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A) public interest
B) ideological
C) labor
D) business

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