Special Interest Groups Are Subsets of the General Population That

question 2

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) a and c
• E) none of the above

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