Foreign influence: Ontario Reagan ad and Super Bowl ad.
For Wednesday, Rauch: https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/political-realism-rauch2.pdf
Student hour today: 1:30-2:30
Tocqueville (Lawrence/Mayer ed., p. 518):
It often happens in democratic countries that many men who have the desire or directed toward that light, and those wandering spirits who had long sought each other the need to associate cannot do it, because all being very small and lost in the crowd, they do not see each other and do not know where to find each other. Up comes a newspaper that exposes to their view the sentiment or the idea that had been presented to each of them simultaneously but separately. All are immediately in the shadows finally meet each other and unite.
- ECONOMIC INTEREST GROUPS:
- Corporations and other for-profit businesses
- Trade and Professional Associations: The IRS recognized 58,627 business leagues -- e.g., trade and professional associations, -- in FY2024 (p. 30). Examples Many workers require a license or credential.
- Labor Unions: BLS data
Non-economic Interest Groups (Tocqueville on associational life)
WHY THE GUN LOBBY HAS POWER (NOT JUST THE CAMPAIGN MONEY)
VIDEO ON INTEREST GROUPS AND THE LOBBYING INDUSTRY
Inside game
- In-house lobbying and contract lobbying
- Access -- the real value of campaign money
- The key: knowing your stuff, making a case on the merits
Outside game
- Advertising
- Ballot measures
- Litigation and amicus briefs (where to find them)
For next time;
Political Money
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