INTEREST GROUPS. Fortune’s “Power 25” The 10 Most Effective Interest Groups RankOrganizationWebsite 1National Rifle Associationwww.nra.org 2AARPwww.aarp.org.

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INTEREST GROUPS

Fortune’s “Power 25” The 10 Most Effective Interest Groups RankOrganizationWebsite 1National Rifle Associationwww.nra.org 2AARPwww.aarp.org 3National Federation of Independent Businesswww.nfibonline.com 4American Israel Public Affairs Committeewww.alpac.org 5Association of Trial Lawyers of Americawww.atla.org 6American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) 7Chamber of Commerce of the U.S.A. 8National Beer Wholesalers Associationwww.nwba.org 9National Association of Realtorswww.realtor.com 10National Association of Manufacturerswww.nam.org Fortune, May Copyright 2011 Cengage Learning

Other Important Interest Groups American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) American Legion American Library Association Handgun Control, Inc. Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) National Audubon Society National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) National Gay and Lesbian Task Force National Organization for Women (NOW) National Urban League Sierra Club Veterans of Foreign Wars World Wildlife Fund 3Copyright 2011 Cengage Learning

Figure 10.5 Interest Group Participants 4

Figure 10.1 Investing in Public Policy 5

Contemporary Interest Groups SOURCE: Frank R. Baumgartner and Beth L. Leech, “Interest Niches and Policy Bandwagons: Patterns of Interest Group Involvement in National Politics,” Journal of Politics 63 (November, 2001): 1191– Copyright 2011 Cengage Learning

Figure 10.3 Friendship is a Wonderful Thing 7

Figure 10.4 The Tactics of Advocacy 8

Decline in Union Membership 9Copyright 2011 Cengage Learning

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