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A 9 page research paper arguing that the role of interest groups is essentially to complement that of political parties and not to compete with them. The writer includes a number of good analytical points and examines the varying capacities in which interest & pressure groups can become involved in the Democratic election process. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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desires of their own membership. But to complement the efforts of political parties and to help ensure that the needs of individually-collective populations are met, interest groups (sometimes referred to
for this purpose as pressure groups) very often effect the actions of the parties themselves. It can be said that interest groups, in effect, both compete with and complement political
parties, whichever is the more appropriate in a given circumstance. The first part of this assertion is true in the sense that groups will rival a party interest if it
is contradictory to their own. In this sense, one theme of interest group will rival one political partys ideals. But even in this case, the rival interest group will seek
to combat the political party only through complementary alliance with another party. And so, the second half of my opening assertion is more genuine in the sense that interest groups
utilize political parties to voice their opinions and to accomplish their desired tasks-- complementing the party at the same time. Whether they are "for" or "against" one particular party, interest
groups will always use another in order to accomplish their desired objective. It cannot escape mention that laws supplied by legislators pertaining to public goods yield
joint and non-exclusive benefits but that they also yield joint and non-exclusive harm. As a result, there is a collective demand for every law but there also is a collective
demand against it. And so there will always exist interest groups pressuring political parties in both directions. Or, -- in order to increase their influence, members of the collective can
often organize themselves into interest groups. Since functionary legislators and candidates for the legislature have the goal of maximizing their chances of being elected, the favors and "bribes" of interest
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