Explain what earmarks are and how they are related to interest group politics.

What will be an ideal response?

An earmarkis a provision in a law that provides a direct benefit to a client without the benefit having been reviewed on the merits by all of Congress.?Earmarks have always existed, but they became much more common in the 1970s and later. There are two reasons for this. First, the federal government was doing much more and thus affecting more parts of society. Second, lobbying organizations figured out that clients would pay for information about how to convert some bit of federal activity to their benefit.