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4 ημέρες πριν · Interest group, any association of individuals or organizations, usually formally organized, that, on the basis of one or more shared concerns, attempts to influence public policy in its favor. All interest groups share a desire to affect government policy to benefit themselves or their causes.
12 Σεπ 2023 · This study advances the research agenda on interest groups by identifying gaps in previous studies and proposing new perspectives to analyse the political connections of the public bureaucracy.
Interest groups send representatives to state capitals and to Washington, D.C. to put pressure on members of Congress and other policymakers. They engage in lobbying , or the organized process of influencing legislation or policy.
22 Απρ 2013 · An expansive and historical overview of the study of interest groups in American politics. Provides an excellent analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of various research studies, and highlights important lacunae in the research on interest groups.
21 Απρ 2020 · In one of the European Commission’s earliest reports on interest groups and lobbying, reference is only made so-called “special interest groups” (European Commission, 1993, p. 1). By 2001, the less pejorative but similarly nebulous term “civil society” was included (European Commission, 2001).
We survey the dominant approaches to interest groups within political science, examine organized interests and lobbying in the early American republic, and document the rise of the modern interest group system at the beginning of the twentieth century.
Interest groups are groups of people who organize in order to seek to influence a political outcome or seek to alter public policies on the basis of a common interest or concern. The universe of interest groups is as vast in number as it is in scope.
