POL SCI 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Civi-Dt, Omnipotence, Older Americans Act
5 Dec 2015
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Pluralist (madison): interest groups have influence and negotiate a compromise in which everyone gets someone. Def: private organization that tries to persuade public officials to act and vote according to members" interest. Achieve through lobbying or campaigning for support. Different from party in that they do not openly run candidates for office or are in government. Key to pluralism: diversity of cleavages that are cross-cutting: economic divisions cross-cut by religion/ racial/ ethnic/ geographic implications, implications, overlapping membership, shifting coalitions, not permanent winner/loser (cid:1) (cid:1) Selective incentives: special benefits in exchange for. Solidarity benefits: social benefits of being in a group of like-minded people (friends/network), works best in small, face-to-face groups. Expressive benefits: desire to help cause, morality, esp non- economic groups. But groups that offer members an explicit monetary incentive (farm groups, business groups) still have an advantage over public goods seeking groups (cid:1) (cid:1)
