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| political process by an individual or group that aims to influence public policy and resource allocation |
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| collection of views people hold on public issues. influences political process and affects actions of government |
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| organizaed group of individuals who share common goals or objectives and attempt to influence policymakers in all levels of the three branches of government |
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| when a person contacts a representative about proposed change in law |
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| 4 types of economic interest groups |
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business
organized labor
agriculture groups
professional associations |
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| 3 Types of interest groups |
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Economic
Public Interest
Environmental |
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| 5 functions of interest groups |
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Representation-interest of members
Political Participation-enable people to participate
Education-members, public, government
Agenda building
Program Monitoring-how laws are administered |
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| worker organization that seek to secure economic improvement for members |
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| negotiation between management and a union for purpose or reaching mutually agreeable contract that sets wages, benefits, and working conditions |
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Craft-skilled workers
Industrual-nonskilled for industry
Public employee union-public employees |
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Also called National Labor Relations Act of 1935 and helped form industrial unions
Gave workers right to organize and engage in collective bargaining |
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| COngress of Industrial Organization |
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| made of industrual unions. Before this, most unions were craft |
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allowed right to work laws, which made it illegiall to require membership as a condition of continued employment
Made closed shops illegal (forced to be union member before working) |
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| Forces workers to join unions once hired |
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| prohibited juridictional disputes, sympathy strikes, and secondary boycott |
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| Union membership went from 20% of workforce to 12.1% of workforce |
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| 35.9% of public are unionized compared to 7.5% of private |
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| not based on government and not profit making. In US, NGOs are private voluntary organizations |
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| World Bank definition of NGO |
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| private agencies in industrial countries that have humanitarian objectives over commercial ones. Promotes interest of the poor, does suffering relief, protects environment, provides social services and advocates community development |
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charitable (needs of poor/disaster relief)
service (health, family planning, education)
Participatory-self help goups with locals (habitat for humanity)
Empowering-helping poor people develop a clearer understanding of social, political, and economic factors |
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environment
labor standard
poverty
globalization
animal rights |
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