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Characteristics of Interest
Groups
Examples from Mundo,
Interest Groups: Cases and
Characteristics
(Some) Characteristics on which
Interest Groups vary
• Reason for formation
• Group’s goals
• Balance of selective incentives offered to
members
• Unitary or federated organization
• Role of members in decisionmaking
• Age/degree of bureaucracy
• Strategies employed
Sierra Club
• Reason for formation
• Balance of selective incentives offered to
members
• Group’s goals
• Federated organization
• Balance between hierarchical and
decentralized decisionmaking
• Strategies
Semiconductor Industry Assn
• Reason for formation
• Balance of selective incentives offered to
members
• Group’s goals
• Unitary organization
• Centralized but participatory decisionmaking
• Strategies
International Association of
Machinists
• Reason for formation
• Balance of selective incentives offered to
members
• Group’s goals
• Federated organization
• Balance between hierarchical and
decentralized decisionmaking
• Strategies
Common Cause
• Reason for formation
• Balance of selective incentives offered to
members mostly purposive
• Group’s goals
• Unitary organization
• Centralized decisionmaking
• Strategies
Truman again
• What evidence is there here for
disturbance theory?