Following the Sharpstown Bank scandal, the Texas legislature
A) banned lobbyists from the capitol building in Austin.
B) prevented lobbyists from giving cash payments to lawmakers.
C) prohibited candidates for Speaker from giving anything of value to supportive legislators.
D) changed laws allowing gifts to exchange hands between state Senate and House members.
C
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A key dimension in discussion of the future of the Senate involves
A. the language that individuals speak. B. how senators are selected. C. how much senators are paid. D. how many senators there are.
Which of the following differentiates a pluralist and a corporatist pattern?
A. Under corporatism there is a free market in interest group formation as opposed to under pluralism. B. Under pluralism, the government centrally organizes societal interests, while under corporatism, the state plays relatively little role in fostering or impeding interest group formation. C. Under pluralism, collective action takes the top-down approach, while corporatism promotes the grassroots mobilization of people. D. The pluralistic pattern requires that interest groups have institutionalized channels of representation in the state as opposed to the corporatist pattern which encourages interest groups to mobilize and organize societal interests freely. E. While in the pluralist pattern, interest groups form from within civil society, in the corporatist pattern the state influences interest group formation.