| Term | Definition |
|---|
| inside strategy | Action plan to promote the policy through the staff working directly with influential politicians. |
| outside strategy | A plan of action for advancing one's policies by building popular support for one's cause. |
| interest group | Organized group that seeks to promote and create public benefits for their causes. |
| political movement | An organized constellation of groups seeking social change at large scale. |
| public interest groups | People who support a policy that, in his view, promote the welfare of all Americans and not just ideological or economic interests of a few. |
| Lobbying | Tactics to influence public decisions with private motives, often through personal contact with elected officials. |
| advocacy groups | Groups organized around goals but public and community groups, often without formal membership. |
| political entrepreneur | Generate support for individual projects or latent causes that have not yet gained general popularity. |
| Strategy | A group's plan to achieve its objectives. |
| Tactics | Specific actions taken by groups to implement their strategies. |
| revolving door | Term that refers to the flow of individuals from seeking jobs with the government and their job search with interest groups. |
| iron triangle | Decision-making structure dominated by interest groups, congressional committees and staff of executive agencies to create a mutually beneficial policy. |
| issue networks | Decision-making structure established by political experts: people who exercise political pressure, members of Congress, bureaucrats and experts on laws pertaining to groups of academics and universities. |
| political action committees (PACs) | Organized financial arms of interest groups that raise and distribute money among the political candidates. |
| leadership PACs | Political action committees organized by political leaders as a means to finance the campaigns of political allies, in his opinion, assist in return their own political ambitions. |
| 527 groups | Organizations created by tax-free interest groups to participate in political activities. |
| political disadvantage theory | Point of view that states that groups tend to seek remedies in court if you do not win through the electoral process. |
| grassroots mobilization | The practice of obtaining public support for the interests of one group or for certain political candidates. |
| mobilizing the grass tops | Exploitation of databases from community leaders at a high level with the purpose of contacting legislators in key districts to obtain the sponsorship of the group's objectives. |
| astroturf lobbying | The use of deceptive practices and lacking in transparency that generates support from root for an important matter for an indefinite number of interests. |
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