Friday, December 13, 2013

Essay #5 Different interest groups will choose different techniques to achieve their objectives based on their resources, characteristics, and goals.

An interest group is any voluntary association that seeks to publicly promote and create advantages for its cause. Litigation, campaign contributions, and grassroots lobbying are all techniques that help interest groups achieve their goals.
Litigation is the process of solving legal disputes through the courts. Interest groups can provide support for causes that they want to promote. They can give free legal assistance to individuals or groups whose causes they support. Interest groups use campaign contributions to bribe. The groups will give money for the candidate's campaign and in return, the candidate will usually vote in favor of the interest group when voting on legislation.
Grassroots lobbying/mass mobilization is when a group gets people together in an effort to raise awareness through media coverage. This technique is highly successful.
The interest group NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) uses mostly litigation because most of the progressive work that they do involves court cases. The NAACP demonstrates the most successful way to stop civil rights injustices.

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