POG 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Anti-Globalization Movement, New Social Movements, Transmedia Storytelling

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Politics and Public Administration
• Course: POG 100
• Professor: Donna Schatz

Document Summary

Interest groups pursue the common interests of groups of people by trying to influence the development, adoption, and implementation of public policies. In recent decades, there has been a growth in the number of interest groups, the size of their membership, and the diversity of interests that are represented. The growth of interest groups reflects the growth of the activities of government. Issue-oriented interest groups often spontaneously develop to express the views of people on a particular issue, concern, or grievance. Institutionalized groups have developed a formal organization, including such features as a well-established membership base, paid professional staff, permanent offices, and the capability to keep its members and the public aware of its views and activities. Neocorporatism: a political system in which the state actively collaborates with selected major interests (particularly the national organizations of business & labour) to seek a consensus concerning the country"s major economic and social policies.