FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT AP GOV CH 11 VOCAB

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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT AP GOV CH 11 VOCAB

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Question 1: Interest group

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An organization of people with shared policy goals entering the policy process at several points to try to achieve those goals. Interest groups pursue their goals in many arenas.

Question 2: Subgovernments

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A network of groups within the American political system that exercise a great deal of control over specific policy areas. aka iron triangles

Question 3: amicus curiae briefs

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legal briefs submitted by a "friend of the court" for the purpose of raising additional points of view and presenting information not contained in the briefs of the formal parties.

Question 4: electioneering

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Direct group involvement in the electoral process. Groups can help fund campaigns, provide testimony, and get members to work for the candidates, and some form political action committees

Question 5: Collective good

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Something of value (money, tax write off, clean air) that cannot be withheld from a group member

Question 6: Class action lawsuits

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Lawsuits permitting a small number of people to sue on behalf of all other people similarly situated

Question 7: elite theory

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Theory in government- societies are divided along class lines, and upper class will rule

Question 8: Olson's law of large groups

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Advanced by Mancur Olson, a principle stating that "the larger the group, the further it will fall short of providing an optimal amount of a collective good

Question 9: right-to-work laws

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A state law forbidding requirements that workers must join a union to hold ther jobs.

Question 10: union shop

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A provision found in some collective bargaining agreements requiring all employees of a business to join the union within a short period

Question 11: Political action committees

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Political funding vehicles created by the 1974 campaign finance reforms.

Question 12: Single issue group

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Groups that have a narrow interest, tend to dislike compromise, and often draw membership from people new to politics.

Question 13: selective benefits

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Goods (such as information publications, travel discounts) that a group can restrict to those who pay their annual dues

Question 14: hyperpluralist theory

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Theory in government- the government is weakened by groups

Question 15: Free rider problem

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The problem faced by unions and other groups when people do not join because they can benefit from the group's activities without officially joining.

Question 16: Pluralist Theory

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A theory of gov. and politics emphasizing that politics is mainly competition among groups, each one pressing for its own preferred policies

Question 17: lobbying

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"communication by someone other than a citizen acting on his own behalf, directed to a governmental decision maker with the hope of influencing his decision

Question 18: Public interest lobbies

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According to jeff berry, organizations that seek "a collective good, the achievement of which will not selectively and materially benefit the membership or activities of the organization

Question 19: actual group

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That part of the potential group consisting of members who actually join

Question 20: Potential group

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all the people who might be interest group members because they share some common interest