Characterize the ways that organized interest groups influence policy. What trends are occurring relative to interest groups and their impact on U.S. policy?
What will be an ideal response?
According to Vaughan and Arsneault, nonprofits and public policy interact in four primary ways: they make policy, they influence policy, they are affected by policy, and they are subject to policy-governing operations. Lobbying is a key activity of interest groups. Growing numbers of interest groups have a greater and greater impact.
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a) $400 b) $4,000 c) $500 d) $5,000 e) $25,000
Which of the following is true of the old media in the twentieth century?
A) Film displaced print media in the early twentieth century. B) Television did not have an effect in displacing print media. C) Beginning about 1950, the number of adults reading a daily paper began to increase dramatically. D) Radio did not displace print media in the early twentieth century. E) Beginning about 1950, the circulation of the newspaper declined to a great extent.