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Interest Groups, Including Political Action Committees (PACs)
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1. Special interests that rely on dues and individual contributions for financial support prefer when political opposition to their cause is in power because
2. The link of interest groups and the political process often causes
3. All of the following are barriers to PAC influence EXCEPT
4. The federal government has encouraged the growth of interest groups by
5. Interest groups are successful in American politics because
6. The most frequent method that interest groups use to influence policy is
7. From the earliest days of the United States, observers such as James Madison and Alexis de Tocqueville thought interest groups could harm the political process because
8. As of 2007, there were more than _______________ people employed in the lobbying industry in the Washington, D.C., area.
9. PACs with broad ideological agendas seek influence by
10. Lobbying is
11. Small special interest groups often successfully lobby elected officials on policy because
12. Large special interest groups use selective incentives to get people to participate because these incentives
13. PACs with a narrow policy objective seek to influence public policy by
14. Technological advancements have allowed interest groups to proliferate because
15. Special interest groups tend to have more representation in government politics than others because of
16. Citizens who contribute to interest groups without worrying whether it will make an appreciable difference do so because of
17. Special interest groups represent numerous issues, and large groups split into smaller organizations because
18. PAC contributions to members of Congress ensure
19. "All of the following were consequences of the fracturing of the New Deal party alignments EXCEPT"
20. Political action committees (PACs) can encompass all of the following categories EXCEPT
21. An interest group’s primary responsibility is to

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