Access Millions of academic & study documents

Political Parties And Interest Groups Edited

Content type
User Generated
Subject
Political Science
Type
Homework
Showing Page:
1/4

Sign up to view the full document!

lock_open Sign Up
Showing Page:
2/4

Sign up to view the full document!

lock_open Sign Up
Showing Page:
3/4

Sign up to view the full document!

lock_open Sign Up
End of Preview - Want to read all 4 pages?
Access Now
Unformatted Attachment Preview
Surname 1 Name Tutor Course Institution Date Political Parties and Interest Groups Interest groups have more influence on government policy. Unlike political parties that work solely to fill candidates for positions under a party label, interests groups work on issuespecific and narrowly focused on areas such as gun right, interests ranging, and taxes. In addition, interest groups are more concerned with ensuring that their policy positions are passed into law as opposed to winning the election (Berry & Wilcox, 2018). Interest groups such as Occupy Wall Street Movement, Tea Party Movement seek more specific policy than political parties. As result, they acquire huge influence as compared to political parties. Unlike political parties that work on general goals that might be ambiguous to achieve, interest groups have more influence because it provides an opportunity for people to actively work on an issue in an effort to influence public policy. Since interest groups have the powers to endorse candidates for political positions, they have an avenue to express their grievances and opinions using endorsed candidates (Berry & Wilcox, 2018). Hence, interest groups act as a balance betwe ...
Purchase document to see full attachment
User generated content is uploaded by users for the purposes of learning and should be used following Studypool's honor code & terms of service.
Studypool
4.7
Indeed
4.5
Sitejabber
4.4