Interest Groups

Twelve observations about interest groups

1. Even registered sex offenders have a group.
2. So do frats.
3. Foreign and domestic governments engage in lobbying. 
4. Teach for America is an interest group.
5. Advocacy organizations take several forms.
6. Spending on federal lobbying is equal to or greater than spending on federal elections.
7. And not all advocacy work counts as lobbying.
8. The revolving door keeps revolving.
9. Philanthropy is a form of interest group influence.
10. Think tanks are not always nonpartisan

NEA General Counsel Bob Chanin speaks frankly about power:

Shadow Lobbying




501(c)(3)  -- CMC is one.

Super PACs and 501(c)(4)

Political Realism