POL S 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Southwest Ohio Regional Transit Authority, Better Business Bureau, Planned Parenthood

• School: SDSU
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL S 102
• Professor: J.M E R C U R I O

Document Summary

John coleman: a politically-oriented organization of people who share common interest and make demands on others in society with respect to those interests : not: Methods: pp attack the system from the inside, shape policy from the inside (take seats), internal approach: ig try to influence people who hold elector office, external approach. Focus: single minded, single issue: focus resources on one thing, pp need to get as many votes as possible so they need to focus on many issues- umbrella group. Ownership and accountability: ig are privately owned and established and operated. Answer to their members (donators, people who pay dues, etc: pp: quasi-public (sorta, kinda ish) Like a public entity, public owned but they are not. Govt cannot own party but party is part of govt. Faction: group of selfish people (madison), ig or pp. Attitude towards groups today: some people agree with them and some don"t, some are selfish.