Pressure groups of the USA: methods used.
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- Methods used by pressure groups
- Electioneering & Endorsement
- Actively support or oppose presidential & congressional candidates positions on the policy areas of concern to them.
- PACs raise & give money to candidates. In 2006, PAC spending reached of $1 billion.
- No clear link between PAC contributions & the way congressmen cast their vote on the floor.
- Lobbying
- PGs are often the only source of information. They maintain offices in Washington DC, state capitols & local government, allowing them to be on hand to lobby members of federal, sate & local government.
- Lobbying firms are built around former presidential aides & cabinet officers whose visibility & experience help to attract clients.
- PGs also provide legislators with voting cues - to ensure the party is taking the right stand on a particular issue.
- Publicity
- Marches & demonstrations
- Million Mom March, Tv advertising
- NRA, emails, initatives or proposition
- Family research council, proposition
- They can be counter-productive if they frighten people or where they are indicative that other, more direct access to decision makers is not open to them.
- PGs often launch public relations campaigns in order to educate the people at large.
- Issue advertising - use of TV; Public policy journals - sent to all members of congress, senior staff @ White House & executive departments & agencies; roadside hoardings; bumper stickers & badges; informative or promotional DVDs
- Marches & demonstrations
- Organising grass-roots activities
- These activities may include the organisation of a postal blitz on congress, the white house or a government department.
- Electioneering & Endorsement
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