Ch. 12 - Political Interest Groups

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Across

  1. Which are more common: ECONOMIC or NON-ECONOMIC interest groups? (8)
  2. Political interest groups are more numerous in which type of political system, those with DISPERSED or CONCENTRATED political powers. (9)
  3. A system in which political interest groups compete to influence government from the outside. (9)
  4. One of the founders of SCLC, the Southern Christian Leadership Committee. (four words) (21)
  5. One of the lead attorneys for the NAACP who later became the first African-American to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court. (two words) (17)

Down

  1. A system in which interest groups have a formal role within government in making and administering policies. (two words) (26)
  2. A system in which the regime in power manipulates interest groups to further the regime's interests. (two words) (20)
  3. An organized group (the party organization) of individual voters (the party in the electorate) that seek to further their common political interests by influencing government from the inside (the party in government). (two words) (15)
  4. An organized group of people who seek to advance shared political interests by influencing government policies from the outside through lobbying, litigating, electioneering, etc. (three words) (24)
  5. The political theorist who argued that, “... the most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution of property.” (two words) (13)
  6. The last name of one of the founders of the NAACP. (two words) (7)
  7. A tactic of political interest groups that involves passive (nonviolent) resistance to political authority and noncompliance with laws or policies that are considered to be unjust. (two words) (18)
  8. An unorganized (or only loosely or informally organized) group of individuals, that share a common set of interests or grievances, who use collective action to further their interests. (two words) (18)
  9. Which type of country tends to have more numerous political interest groups, those with a: TWO-PARTY or MULTI-PARTY system? (9)
  10. One of the founders of CORE, the Congress of Racial Equality. (two words) (12)


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