HLTC43H3 Lecture : Lecture 05- HLTC03.docx

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23 Apr 2012

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Emphasis on ideas, reason, logic (they want to see a body. Pluralists stress other cleavaes than class such as, ethnicity, language, gender, region, ideology, etc: competition among the elites, objective on interest groups comes to public consultation. Pluralists are an example of a consensus model of change: emphasizes on ideas, however it take more than that, acknowledges inequality and has resources but no action. When hitler came into power, he shut down all the other governments. Take-over (colonization) of political science by economics. Story of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggle. The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas. States, markets, and civil society is interrelated: focus is on the macro level [critical perspective, more explicit about its political interest. Examples of political economy approach: harold innis" staple theory. Influence of power and authority: wallace clement and leo panitch; linked economic and political forces structures and shape social life in canada.

Related Questions

1) What is one of the reasons that interest groups have proliferated over the past half century?

a. Developments in technology made interest group activities easier.

b. A decline in government performance prompted new groups to form.

c. Interest groups became more successful in running candidates for office.

d. Legal restrictions on lobbying activities were lifted.

e. A decline in political parties led to more interest group formation.

2) Which of the following is an example of a single-issue interest group?

a. the Chamber of Commerce

b. the American Association of Retired Persons

c. the Virginia 21 Coalition

d. Common Cause

3) Which of the following is a cost of voting?

a. party identification

b. being informed

c. gender

d. political efficacy

4) Which of the following is an example of the free-rider (or collective action) problem?

a. an elected official accepting bribes from an interest group

b. an elected official relying on information from lobbyists

c. a political action committee contributing to candidates from both major political parties

d. an environmental group struggling to raise funds for a âclean airâ campaign

5) Referring to Figure 10.2, which of the following statements about PAC campaign contributions made by banks and labor unions is true?

Labor PACS donate slightly less money to campaigns overall than do banking PACs.

Banking PACS direct their donations to support whichever candidate shares their ideological values.

c. Labor PACs consistently give the majority of their PAC money to Democrats, even when Republicans control Congress.

d. Banking PACS focus their money on Democrats, but when Republicans are in power, they split their donations between the two parties.

6) With the formation of so many interest groups in recent years and with so many of them having influence in Washington, __________ argue that it has been increasingly difficult to accomplish major policy change in Washington.

a.pluralists

b.hyperpluralists

c. elitists

d. labor unions

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When different elements of government lack coordination on an issue, one frequent solution is to form ______ within ________.
a. review boards; Congress
b. cooperative boards; the bureaucracy
c. inter-agency task forces; the executive branch
d. groups of expertise; combined departments
e. interstate governing authorities; the Governor's Association

The trend in policymaking arrangements at the national level in the United States has been for
a. issue networks to become more prevalent than pluralist arrangements.
b. majoritarian politics to replace gridlock.
c. the number of participants to decline.
d. interest groups to replace issue networks.
e. subgovernments to become specialists