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Question

I've only recently heard the term "interest groups." For a long time, I've thought of them as "lobbyists" or "lobbying groups," but I guess they are the same thing, different terminology!

Anyway, here are the Google results when I searched for interest groups government:

http://www.google.com/search?q=interest+groups+government&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-SearchBox&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=ie7&rlz=1I7SUNA

The best of these seem to be --

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_interest

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http://polisci.nelson.com/introlobby.html

Other teachers here may have more to add.

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