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Political Studies
Undergraduate 1
07/22/2010

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What is most influential interest group?
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American Farm Bureau Federation
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What is an interest group represting consumers?
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Comsumer Federation of America
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What interest group lobbies for American support of Isreal?
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AIPAC
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Lobbyists are more sucessful in influencing the general direction of public policy than the details of those policies.
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More lobbying occurs in the excutive branch is to influence the rules and regulations written by the exective branvh agancies adminstering the law.
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Governmental lobbying inculdes excutive braanch agaenives lobbying Congress for legisations and funds.
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Define grass roots lobbying.
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a group tatic to influence group members or the general public to contact decisions makers to support some goal of the group.
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How is grass roots lobbying different than direct lobbying.
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lobbying involves resprestives of an interest group contacting public officals
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Name the largest most influenceful labor group.
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AFL_CIO
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in what branch of government does most lobbying occur?
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executive
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Campaign activities occur when a group becomees involved in the election process to elect of defeat a candidate.
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Giving campain contributions to a candidate is an example of campian activies
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Campain contributions go to candidates who have supported the group in past votes.
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lobbying inculdings giving campian contributions,
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f these two activies are complety seprate although a group might do both
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Most campain contrubutions go to icumbents even if that person does not tent tom support the goals of the group
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