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Who we are?

When are

interests interesting?

Who gets represented?

Associations

  • complex societies generate greater numbers of associations

Truman (1951)

  • acquire connections with the institutions of government
  • disturbances induce group formation

Ideological

Agenda

Operation

of

Government

Access

Access

Members of Congress have three goals...

What do members need?

Make good policy

Power in the institution

65+

41-50

51-64

21-30

31-40

08-14

15-20

It's

Complicated

Attainment of the goals is complicated by:

Constituency reaction

Legislative process

Policy performance

Not ALL

about the money

Does money "buy" votes?

$$$$$$$

By the Numbers

Pick a House or Senate race and follow the money to see where it goes...

  • Campaign
  • Party
  • Independent expenditures
  • Individual Donor
  • Dark money - 501(c)(4)
  • Does it follow the patterns in BPC's Figures 5 & 6?

From where does the money really come?

"Wealthy individuals are more of a threat to Super PACs controlling elections than corporations ever could be because their motivations are much more direct

(Hoffman 2016, 233)."

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