 | Chapter Outline
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- Introduction: interest groups defined
- Barriers to interest groups articulating and representing people's wishes
- Not all interest groups well organized (producer groups usually best ones)
- Some groups command disproportionate voice in interest group system because they have special advantages
- Most interest groups are not organized democratically; their leaders are not closely responsive to members' wishes
- Box: The Logic of Collective Action
- Types of interest groups
- Sectoral
- Institutional
- Promotional
- Tactics of interest groups
- Control of information and expertise
- Electoral activity
- Use of economic power
- Campaign contributions
- Public information campaigns
- Violence and disruption
- Litigation
- Patterns of organized interest group activity
- Degree of organization
- Degree of direct involvement of interest groups in government administration
- Pluralism
- Neocorporatism
- Both pluralism and neocorporatism reflect "choice" perspective
- Examples:
- Interest groups in France
- Interest groups in Japan
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