Essay 20

The American Medical Association uses campaign contributions as the primary way to get what they want. With a huge number of members and tons of access to money, this way just makes the most sense. Using Grassroots lobbying takes too much time and effort. For each item the AMA wants passed, they would have to get too many members in order for it to work. The American Medical Association doesn't prefer to use litigation, because they want to be on peoples good side, and suing is not the way to do that

(1999_2)National interest groups often target national-level policymaking institutions to achieve their policy objectives.

Select one of the following national interest groups.

- AARP

- AMA (Medical Association

- NAACP

- NAM (national assoc. of Manufacturers)

For the group you selected do each of the following.

- a identify one major national-level policymaking institution that this group targets.

- b describe one resource or characteristic of the group you have chosen and explain how it influences the choice of the target you have identified in (a)

- c describe another resource or characteristic of the group you have chosen and explain how it influences the choice of the target you have identified in (a).

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