On Broad, Long-Term Foreign Policy Issues, Such as American Participation

question 38

Multiple Choice

On broad, long-term foreign policy issues, such as American participation in the North Atlantic Free Trade Agreement, larger business and industry groups find it difficult to get their members to speak with a single voice because:

• A) they find it difficult, as is the case in domestic policy lobbying, to overcome the free-rider problem.
• B) their members tend to pay more attention to domestic than foreign news, like most other Americans.
• C) the complexity of most foreign policy issues overwhelms many members.
• D) members may have many varying, and sometimes conflicting, economic interests that lead them to see policies in diverse ways.

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