What Has Been the Trend in Terms of Numbers of Interest

question 36

Multiple Choice

What has been the trend in terms of numbers of interest groups in the 20th century?

• A) The numbers have mushroomed in the late 1960s and have grown steadily ever since.
• B) The numbers have remained remarkably stable since the early 1900s.
• C) While there had been an explosion of interest groups in the 1960s, the numbers slowed during the 1980s, when they were less influential during the Reagan Revolution.
• D) The numbers had increased steadily since the 1960s until the 1990s when they started to decline in number.
• E) There are fewer interest groups today since the 1960s but most of them are much larger in size of membership.

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