Political Science 1020E Lecture 35: Interest Groups & Social Movement
3 Mar 2017
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Defining interest groups: interest groups aim to influence, not become, the government, like parties, interest groups emerged alongside representative government, and modern mass society cleavages: Types of groups: communal embedded, not detached. Embedded identity is something you are born to and is part of your social makeup. Detached identity is one that you voluntarily assume, non-essential identities: institutional parts of government. Our way to understand that not all interest groups are out in society: association groups. Society is best seen as a complex web of competing interests. Sectional groups: identifies group that defends a specific group of interests (workers, Promotional groups: identifies groups that defends a vast number of interests (wwf, Interest group targets: groups try to influence: Courts a(cid:373)i(cid:272)us (cid:272)uriae (cid:894)(cid:862)frie(cid:374)d of the court(cid:863)(cid:895) Republican model: rousseau: organized interests degrade general interest, french revolution: Pluralist model: de tocqueville: modern democracy best grounded on interests, associations, early 20th century american political science embraced pluralism, model depends on:
