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AP GOV Interest Groups Needed Voab

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Electioneering
Strategy of providing support to candidates and getting members to vote for them
Citizens United v. FEC
A 2010 decision by the United States Supreme Court holding that independent expenditures are free speech protected by the 1st Amendment and so cannot be limited by federal law. Leads to creation of SuperPACs & massive rise in amount of third party electioneering (Citizens for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow)
SuperPACs
a type of independent political action committee which may raise unlimited sums of money from corporations, unions, and individuals but is not permitted to contribute to or coordinate directly with parties or candidates.
K Street
location of the offices of nearly seven thousand organizations that are represented in Washington
Pluralism
A theory of government that holds that open, multiple, and competing groups can check the asserted power by any one group.
Hyperpluralism
a theory of government and politics contending that groups are so strong that government is weakened
actual group
That part of the potential group consisting of members who actually join.
union shop
A provision found in some collective bargaining agreements requiring all employees of a business to join the union within a short period, usually 30 days, and to remain members as a condition of employment.
think tank
a nongovernmental organization that seeks to influence public policy through research and education
selective benefits
goods that a group can restrict to those who actually join
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