Interest Groups and Policy-making Matching Quiz Crossword
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1) The political arm of an interest group that is legally entitled to raise funds on a voluntary basis from members, stockholders, or employees to contribute funds to candidates or political parties.
4) A theory of government that holds that open, multiple, and competing groups can check the asserted power by any one group.
5) Political contributions given to a party, candidate, or interest group that are limited in amounts and fully disclosed. Raising such limited funds is harder than raising unlimited funds, hence the term “hard money.”
9) Engaging in activities aimed at influencing public officials, especially legislators, and the policies they enact.
10) comprises the policy-making relationship among the congressional committees, the bureaucracy, and interest groups13) An individual that does not join a group representing his or hers interests yet receives the benefit of the group’s influence.
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2) Public education appeals run by interest groups or political parties that promote a set of ideas, but do not expressly oppose or support the election of specific candidates.
3) The Supreme Court has ruled that individuals, groups and parties can spend unlimited amounts of money in campaigns against or for candidates as long as they operate independently from candidates. When an independent, group or party does this, they are making an independent expenditure.
6) A person who is employed by and acts for an organized interest group or corporation to try to influence policy decisions and positions in the executive and legislative branches.
7) A United States federal law which increased disclosure of contributions for federal campaigns, and to place legal limits on the campaign contributions.8) A term the founders used to refer to political parties and special interests or interest groups.
11) n employment cycle in which individuals who work for governmental agencies that regulate interests, eventually end up working for interest groups or businesses with the same policy concern.
12) Unlimited amounts of money that political parties previously could raise for party-building purposes. Now largely illegal except for limited contributions to state and local parties for voter registration and get-out-the-vote efforts.
14) A collection of people who share a common interest or attitude and seek to influence government for specific ends. Interest groups usually work within the framework of government and try to achieve their goals through tactics such as lobbying.
15) Relationships among interest groups, congressional committees and subcommittees, and the government agencies that share a common policy concern. |
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