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| Professionals who work to influence public policy in favor of their clients' interests |
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| Activities through which individuals, interest groups, and other institutions seek to influence public policy by persuading government officials to support their groups' position |
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| Organized groups of people seeking to influence public policy |
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| Political paralysis in the face of pressing national problems |
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| The personal satisfaction of active self-expression through the contribution or other involvement to social causes |
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| Private goods or benefits that induce rational actors to participate in a collective effort to provide a collective good |
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| Amorphous aggregates of people sharing general values and a desire for social change |
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| Interest group activity that includes normal lobbying of Capitol Hill, working closely with members of Congress, and contributing money on incumbents' campaigns. |
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| Interest group activities designed to influence elected officials by threatening to impose political costs on them if they do not respond. Tactics include marches, demonstrations, campaign contributions to opponents, and electoral mobilization. |
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| Lobbying conducted by rank-and-file members of an interest group. |
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| A group that promotes some conception of of the public interest rather than the narrowly defined economic or other special interests of its members. |
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