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Interest Groups and Democracy

Interest Groups and Democracy

Q Reflect on interest groups and democracy. Discuss whether interest groups magnify the power of individuals to influence government and public policy or if they are used as a tool to exclude “regular people” in favor of wealthy elites. Also discuss whether changing the present election system so that it runs on limited public financing, via tax dollars, instead of contributions from interest groups and wealthy donors, would make the system more democratic and open.

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The concept of the interest groups can be considered as a perfect way for pressuring the politicians in order to support any kind of common interest of the similar minded group of the civilians in a proper manner. The major idea of the interest group is to share a common belief and interest in order to work together for promoting and protecting that particular interest for influencing the current ruling party or the government (Gilens & Page 2014). The size of the interest group varies in tactics, aims and size. The economic group can be economic as well as non-economic.