5 Written Questions

1. provide a means for groups to participate in electioneering.
2. are organizations that seek "a collective good the achievement of which will not selectivelyand materially benefit the membership or activists of the organization
3. asserts that too many groups are getting too much of what they want resulting in government policy that is often contradictoryy and lacking in direction.
4. comes from the place wher petitioners used to collar legislatures.
5. enable a group of people in a similar situation to combinve their common grievances into a single suit.

5 Matching Questions

1. electioneering
2. collective good
3. amicus ciriae briefs
4. union shop
5. potential group

1. a iis something of calie such as clean air that cannot be withheld from a potential group member.
2. b aiding candidates finacially and getting group members out to support them.
3. c consiste of written arguments submitted to the courts in support of one side of a case.
4. d is composed of all people who might be group members because they share some common interest
5. e requires new employees to join the union representing them.

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. are goods that a group can rstrict to those who pay their yearly dues such as information publications.
   1. selective benefits
   2. elite theory
   3. collective good
   4. electioneering
2. the begger group the more serious the free rider problem. " the larger the group the further it will fall short of providing an optimal amount of a collective good
   1. potential group
   2. actual group
   3. olson's law of large groups
   4. single issue group
3. a perfectly rational response is thus to sit back and let other people do the work
   1. collective good
   2. free rider problem
   3. interest group
   4. potential group
4. argues that interest group activity brings representation to all.
   1. elite theory
   2. hyperpluralist theory
   3. Pluralist theory
   4. union shop
5. outlaw union membership as a condition of employment.
   1. right to work laws
   2. subgovernments
   3. electioneering
   4. elite theory

5 True/False Question

1. single issue group → is an organization of people with similar policy goals who enter the political process to try to achieve those aims.
   

   True        False

2. elite theory → argues that interest group activity brings representation to all.
   

   True        False

3. subgovernments → are composed of key interest groups leaders interested in policy.
   

   True        False

4. actual group → is composed of all people who might be group members because they share some common interest
   

   True        False

5. interest group → is an organization of people with similar policy goals who enter the political process to try to achieve those aims.
   

   True        False