Many Interest Groups Are Initially Organized Because

question 22

Multiple Choice

Many interest groups are initially organized because

• A) most state-level government agencies will only negotiate policy implementation with organized groups.
• B) funding opportunities provided by the federal bureaucracy encourage collective action.
• C) a political entrepreneur with a strong commitment to a particular set of goals believes a group will promote his or her goals and enhance his or her political influence.
• D) activists realize that it is easier to form an interest group than it is to engage in other forms of political participation.
• E) a politician has lost an election and wants to challenge the results.

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Definitions:

Distribution

The way in which values of a variable or a set of variables are spread or dispersed across a range.

Variability

The extent to which data points in a data set differ from each other and from the mean of the dataset.

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values, indicating how much the individual data points differ from the mean.

Variance

A measure of the dispersion of a set of data points in a dataset, indicating how far each data point lies from the mean.