Pluralists Believe That Interest Groups

question 207

Multiple Choice

Pluralists believe that interest groups

• A) are an important instrument for obtaining both democracy and the public interest.
• B) occur only in societies where multiple competing interests exist, and will result in the destruction of all but the largest interests.
• C) lead to corruption and manipulation of government institutions, and therefore are essentially undemocratic.
• D) damage both democracy and popular sovereignty by alienating one segment of society against another.
• E) interest groups are too powerful and undermine the systemic of checks and balances.

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