Why Is It Challenging for Interest Groups to Use People

question 51

Multiple Choice

Why is it challenging for interest groups to use people as a resource?

• A) Political parties often take away volunteers from interest groups.
• B) Motivating members to participate can be difficult.
• C) Many people in interest groups simply do not follow politics.
• D) Most people in interest groups are untrusting of government.
• E) Elected officials usually ignore people who seem to be engaging in politics because they have been prompted to do so by an interest group.

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Definitions:

Clayton Act

A law enacted in 1914 to promote competition and prevent monopolies and unfair business practices in the United States.

Antitrust Laws

Laws designed to promote competition and prevent monopolies by regulating business practices that may restrain trade or lead to an unfair concentration of market power.

Deceptive Advertising

Marketing practices that mislead or deceive consumers into believing something about a product or service that is not true or fully disclosed.

Celler-Kefauver Act

A United States antitrust law passed in 1950, aimed at preventing anti-competitive mergers and acquisitions by closing loopholes in the earlier Clayton Antitrust Act.