Special Interest Groups Are Subsets of the General Population That

question 68

Multiple Choice

Special interest groups are subsets of the general population that

• A)attempt to influence government officials for the benefit of the general population.
• B)choose to be rationally ignorant because they are interested only in things that the government is not concerned with.
• C)are on the fringes of the political spectrum.
• D)hold intense preferences for (or against)a particular government service, activity or policy and that often gain from public policies that may not be in keeping with the interests of the general public.

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