Informative Essay: The Popular Kids
“The Popular Kids”
It’s hard to fathom how competently the United States of America has been able to develop as a country in all the years it has existed as a nation. The U.S. is held intact by a democracy that survives on the voices and idea’s of its people; the people being you and me. A supporting wall to the skyscraper that is our government are Special Interest Groups. SIG’s are created so that our rational selves can demand what we find is necessary to maintain, gain or change in our society, from small things such as entertainment/media to big things such as retirement plans. In the next life changing, emotion stirring paragraphs Special Interest Groups will be furthermore examined and exposed to show their true essence. All the information …show more content…
There is concept referred to as the “free rider problem” which exists because of the term “collective good” which means that everybody gains from a new law so it’s not necessary to be part of the process that makes the law possible. Incentives exist that could potentially convince people to join an interest group, there are specifically three incentives, a solidarity incentive, a material incentive, and a purposive incentive. The solidarity incentive could be the feeling of belonging to a group and the pleasure of associating which is one of the needs we have as humans; to feel that we belong. Second is the material incentive, when people do things we almost always expect something in return and interest groups do have something. It obviously depends which special group one refers to but one can gain a specific benefit from an interest group; whether its change, money or a right. The third incentive is the purposive incentive which is the feeling of taking action for example if one joins a interest group that is against abortion or gun possession, fighting these topics can make one feel fulfilled.
Interest groups focus on many different aspects of society, a few examples are economic interest groups and environmental interest groups. Some economic interest groups include business, agricultural, labor interest such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the American Farm Bureau, and the National Education
It’s hard to fathom how competently the United States of America has been able to develop as a country in all the years it has existed as a nation. The U.S. is held intact by a democracy that survives on the voices and idea’s of its people; the people being you and me. A supporting wall to the skyscraper that is our government are Special Interest Groups. SIG’s are created so that our rational selves can demand what we find is necessary to maintain, gain or change in our society, from small things such as entertainment/media to big things such as retirement plans. In the next life changing, emotion stirring paragraphs Special Interest Groups will be furthermore examined and exposed to show their true essence. All the information …show more content…
There is concept referred to as the “free rider problem” which exists because of the term “collective good” which means that everybody gains from a new law so it’s not necessary to be part of the process that makes the law possible. Incentives exist that could potentially convince people to join an interest group, there are specifically three incentives, a solidarity incentive, a material incentive, and a purposive incentive. The solidarity incentive could be the feeling of belonging to a group and the pleasure of associating which is one of the needs we have as humans; to feel that we belong. Second is the material incentive, when people do things we almost always expect something in return and interest groups do have something. It obviously depends which special group one refers to but one can gain a specific benefit from an interest group; whether its change, money or a right. The third incentive is the purposive incentive which is the feeling of taking action for example if one joins a interest group that is against abortion or gun possession, fighting these topics can make one feel fulfilled.
Interest groups focus on many different aspects of society, a few examples are economic interest groups and environmental interest groups. Some economic interest groups include business, agricultural, labor interest such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the American Farm Bureau, and the National Education