PS 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Federalist No. 10, Collective Action, Mancur Olson
19 Dec 2016
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Most lobbyists are paid advocates of special interests. Free riding should doom (cid:685)public interest(cid:686) lobbies. Did not ask for new thing but framed their requests with arguments to fit the altered political context. Insurance industry and the airline industry could make the clearest care for assistance. But they were joined by farm lobbyists, the travel industry, the aircraft industry, the marines etc. Each tried to link their usual pleas to the threat of terrorism. Interest groups and lobbying are inevitable and essential components of modern democratic politics. But they are also a continued source of problems for modern democratic politics. People who want to influence the decisions of government. May not like factions, but they must be tolerated. Organizations trying to achieve goals with some government assistance. Members: partisan development in mind, want a broad range of members, the more the better. Three objectives: 1) win office 2) govern 3) enact policy.
