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346 Chapter 10Chapter 10 || Interest GroupsInterest Groups lobbying ($11.8 million over two years). And only one of the influent ...

What are interest groups? 347 amounted to $3 billion every year. That’s a lot of money, but it’s still only about one- tenth of ...

348 Chapter 10Chapter 10 || Interest GroupsInterest Groups officials, bureaucrats, or legislative staff.^13 Sometimes these form ...

Take a Stand 349 Restrictions on Interest Group Lobbying Under current rules, members of Congress and their staffs are severely ...

350 Chapter 10Chapter 10 || Interest GroupsInterest Groups Membership Interest groups can be categorized in terms of the size of ...

What are interest groups? 351 tries to communicate with congressional offices electronically, and if that doesn’t work, it will ...

352 Chapter 10Chapter 10 || Interest GroupsInterest Groups that employ former members of Congress or congressional staff ) may a ...

Getting organized 353 Collective Action Problems NUTS & B O LT S 10.2 What is collective action? “Collective action” refers ...

354 Chapter 10Chapter 10 || Interest GroupsInterest Groups provide public goods to workers by negotiating with management on beh ...

Interest group strategies 355 Interest Group Strategies Once a group has organized and determined its goals, the next step is to ...

How it works: in theory Lobbying the Federal Government: Inside and Outside Strategies Throughout negotiations between Iran and ...

How it works: in theory Lobbying the Federal Government: Inside and Outside Strategies Throughout negotiations between Iran and ...

358 Chapter 10Chapter 10 || Interest GroupsInterest Groups time they want to lobby their opponents. After all, people who are op ...

Interest group strategies 359 law.^37 Interest groups can bring these actions via lawyers on their staff, a hired law firm, or l ...

360 Chapter 10Chapter 10 || Interest GroupsInterest Groups encourage grassroots lobbying. For example, the AARP’s website has a ...

NUTS & B O LT S 10.3 Interest Groups and Electioneering: Types of Organizations An interest group’s ability to engage in ele ...

362 Chapter 10Chapter 10 || Interest GroupsInterest Groups a nonpartisan manner do not count toward that 20 percent), although s ...

Interest group strategies 363 at all, possibly because they lack sufficient funds, because they want to avoid making enemies bas ...

364 Chapter 10Chapter 10 || Interest GroupsInterest Groups measure on the ballot in one state at a time. Moreover, only some sta ...

How much power do interest groups have? 365 How Much Power Do Interest Groups Have? One 2016 presidential candidate, Democrat La ...