Discuss How Interest Groups Build Support for Favored Candidates

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Essay

Discuss how interest groups build support for favored candidates. What organizations are they allowed to create in order to influence elections? What limits have Congress and the courts placed on these organizations? Are these limits effective? Should there be limitations on how much money individuals and groups can donate to a cause, or do such caps violate First Amendment rights?

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Definitions:

Zone of Proximal Development

A concept by Vygotsky referring to the difference between what a learner can do without help and what they can achieve with guidance and encouragement.

Cognitive Skills

Mental abilities that are part of the thinking process, aiding in problem solving, memory, decision making, and learning.

Ethnicity

A social group that shares a common and distinctive culture, religion, language, or the like.

Ethological Theory

A perspective in psychology that stresses the evolutionary and biological roots of behavior, often examining behaviors from a survival or adaptive standpoint.