A) an interest group mobilizes its members and their families throughout the country to write their representatives in support of the group's position.
B) a spontaneous show of political support for a particular position manifests itself.
C) interest groups organize to support a dark-horse presidential candidate.
D) an interest group buys advertisements in newspapers around the country in order to publicize an issue.
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A) very close links with the national news media, direct ties to a member of Congress, a headquarters in Washington, D.C., and members.
B) very close links with the national news media, connections with Hollywood, direct ties to the president of the United States, and members.
C) leadership, money, an agency or office, and members.
D) leadership, a rigid hierarchical structure, access to loans from the Federal Reserve, and members.
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A) a prohibition on lobbyists from paying for most meals, trips, parties, and gifts for members of Congress
B) a requirement to disclose the amounts and sources of small campaign contributions collected from clients and "bundled" into large contributions
C) a requirement to disclose the funds lobbyists use to rally voters to support or oppose legislative proposals
D) a prohibition on all PAC contributions to members of Congress
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A) selective
B) elective
C) free-rider
D) public good
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A) PACs
B) soft money
C) laws limiting the amount a candidate may spend of his or her personal fortune
D) interest group lobbying
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A) U.S. Senate candidates.
B) U.S. presidential candidates.
C) political parties.
D) Super PACs.
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A) there are no constitutional means for unorganized interests to compete for attention.
B) there are no organizations that can present their identities and demands.
C) there are no measurements of interests and needs outside of representation.
D) these interests often want to stay hidden from public view.
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A) ideological
B) partisan
C) labor
D) public interest
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A) the public good should always trump individual interests.
B) interest groups should be free to compete for governmental influence.
C) interest groups are factions that endanger liberty.
D) democracy is best served by legalizing but regulating the influence of interest groups.
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A) friendship and consciousness-raising.
B) special services and goods.
C) information and money.
D) identification with the purpose or ideology of the group.
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A) do not provide any selective benefits to their members.
B) spend much less time communicating with their members and much more time lobbying policy makers.
C) have a streamlined staff structure with fewer staff who often work from virtual offices.
D) are always run entirely by volunteers who take no salary.
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A) they claim to serve the common good, not just their own particular interests.
B) they were the first political associations to use the strategy of direct mailing.
C) they were the first group to abandon lobbying and take up only grassroots activism.
D) unlike other interest groups, their status is like that of a charity, not a political organization.
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A) going public.
B) lobbying.
C) institutional advertising.
D) an issue network.
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