All of the Following Are Reasons Business Interest Groups Have

question 54

Multiple Choice

All of the following are reasons business interest groups have begun to increasingly support the Democratic party EXCEPT

• A) in some fields business leaders are more likely to be Democrats than Republicans.
• B) the Republican party is no longer business-friendly.
• C) the technology industry contains both Democrats and Republicans.
• D) interest groups are trying to avoid political disfavor.
• E) interest groups want to benefit regardless who wins elections.

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Definitions:

Concrete

Pertaining to material objects, physical construction, or specific, tangible ideas as opposed to abstract concepts.

Symbolic Interaction Theory

Theory that people make sense of the world based on their interpretation of words or symbols used by others.

Semantics

The branch of linguistics and logic concerned with meaning, including the relations between signs and what they denote.

Dissonance Theory

A psychological model proposing that inconsistency among beliefs, attitudes, or behaviors creates discomfort leading to an alteration in one of them to reduce the dissonance.