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A PAC is a specialized kind of interest group that
a. collects and distributes money to canidadtes for office
b. seeks to influence national legislators instead of state level legislators
c. lobbies exclusively on behalf of volunteer citizen groups
d. concentrates on influencing the executive instead of the legislature |
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Texas required registration of interest groups for the first time in _____, but the statue was never enforced.
a. 2001
b. 1907
c. 1999
d. 2014 |
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What is the most common technique used by interest groups?
a. issuing press releases attacking legislators
b. creating advertisements to sway the public
c. giving money to candidates for office
d. lobbying the state legislature |
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| d. lobbying the state legislature |
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Who are what can be part of membership organizations.
a. local governments
b. federal agencies
c. individual citizens
d. business |
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c. individual citizens
d. business |
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Texas is one of the 24 states that has right to work laws
True of False |
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| In Texas, how are public sector employee organizations due to their inability to engage in collective bargaining? |
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| professional associations |
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CORE and NAACP are groups that represent African American interests.
True or False |
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| The term "capture" refers to the situation in which an interest group forms a very close relationship with |
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| The Texas Farmers Union represents which segment of the Texas agricultural industry? |
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The Good Roads Association is a professional association.
True or False |
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The Texas Farm Bureau is a peak business organization.
True of False |
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Nonmembership organizations do not have broad based citizen support
True or False |
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| What is not an example of a state and local interest group? |
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| How many interest groups at the national level have PACS? |
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| How does the Constitution deal with the interest of issue groups? |
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| Interest groups are protected by the first amendment of the constitution |
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| What problem primarily keeps the Texas Ethics Commission from being effective? |
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| The Texas Farm Bureau represents which segment of the Texas Agricultural industry? |
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| large agricultural producers |
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| What is an example of a peak business organization? |
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| Texas Association of Manufacturers |
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| Which type of lobbyists constitutes 40 to 50 percent of all lobbyists in Texas? |
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| What is the primary distinction between trade associations and and peak business organizations? |
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| trade associations represent more specific business interests such as the oil industry |
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