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What are the ways that the interest groups can effect elections?
Definition
Non financial and Financial ways
Term
USCC
Definition
U.S Chamber of commerce
small business
Term
NAM
Definition
National Association of manufacturers
Large business
Term
AMA
Definition
American Medical Association
Doctors's lobby
Term
ABA
Definition
American bar association - lawyers lobby
Term
ATI
Definition
American Tobacco Institute
Big Tobacco
Term
What is an interest group?
Definition
Any organized group of people who try to influence the decisions of local state and federal government officials.
Term
What is a coalition?
Definition
Small interest groups that gather together to become more powerful.
Term
What are lobbies?
Definition
PAID representatives of an Interest group
Term
What are the ways that the interest groups effect the candidates decision after the elections?
Definition
Unions, PACs, 527
Term
What is the decision that changed everything? How did it change it?
Definition
The decision was the Citizen's United Decision. Corporations could spend as much money as they want, directly on candidates.
Term
What did the Corporations want with their money?
Definition
Influences, access, Disclosure laws, transparancy.
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