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Monday, April 28, 2025

Interest Groups I

Crosstabs of the NYT Poll

For Wednesday:

  • Tocqueville 189-203, 513-524.
  •  Alinsky chapter (on Canvas). Don't worry: it's easy reading.
WHAT DO YOU WANT TO DISCUSS NEXT WEEK?

In Federalist 10, Madison described the sources of faction

A zeal for different opinions concerning religion, concerning government, and many other points, as well of speculation as of practice; an attachment to different leaders ambitiously contending for pre-eminence and power; or to persons of other descriptions whose fortunes have been interesting to the human passions... But the most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution of property. Those who hold and those who are without property have ever formed distinct interests in society. Those who are creditors, and those who are debtors, fall under a like discrimination. A landed interest, a manufacturing interest, a mercantile interest, a moneyed interest, with many lesser interests, grow up of necessity in civilized nations, and divide them into different classes, actuated by different sentiments and views. 

Just about every group has an organization -- even this one

DO NOT REDUCE INFLUENCE TO CAMPAIGN MONEY



ALSO FOREIGN INTERESTS

Means of Influence

The Inside Game

VIDEO ON INTEREST GROUPS AND THE LOBBYING INDUSTRY

  • Includes only a fraction of total spending on efforts to influence government;
  • Does not include state and local spending;
  • Does not include campaign finance.

Lobbying activities
  • Talking to members and staff
  • Testimony
  • Writing
Court cases and amicus briefs

The outside game
More dubious stuff: Hunter Biden and Memecoin





Ballot measures: Dialysis example and SEIU

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