Social Sciences and History / Unit 9 SSH 0825 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Iron Triangles, Issue Networks, Voting Cues
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The idea
Groups support sympathetic candidates for access; PACs distribute donors' money. Lawmakers take voting cues from groups on unfamiliar issues. An iron triangle joins a congressional committee, an agency and an interest group; an issue network is a looser coalition around one policy.
In practice
Inside lobbying goes to lawmakers; outside, to the public.
Where people slip
The executive and judiciary are targets too.
Your place on the trail
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