What Role Do Interest Groups Play In Lobbying

The article attempts to reverse the widely-publicized thinking on the purpose of interest groups and their assumed role in influencing the policy process, and instead applies a critical take on interest groups and their surmised thoughts on survival, as viewed in the context of lobbying.
Deeply rooted in the machinations of a working democracy, lobbying has become a magnetic term for individuals with similar interests on probing for a policy that would be of satiation (Lowery
2007, p. 31). The superior role of an interest system in the lobbying avenue would create a marginal tendency for bias directed at small interest groups holding the most influence towards the policy process (p. 32). The summit of lobbying rarely occurs, as the article

There are two observable statuses of the nature of lobbying: the sides created by the division of the policy process are heterogeneous in nature, implying that the structural concept of organizations within one side could have internal, unresolved situations that might not match these organizations individually in terms of interests (p. 199) and the strong contrasting view between changing and establishing a policy, which in focus of the former, details that lobbying is about trying to exact change within a particular policy, and not in its creation (p. 200). Zoning in on how the attention provided by lobbying is important, the consideration of the policy process entails a critical step, which establishes priorities, specifically found on the agenda-setting stage of the policy process. This is where policymakers consider which identified problem warrants attention and a required solution, as well as which identified problem is insignificant for the timebeing, or is generally manageable (p. 201). The attention-grabbing power of lobbying

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Special Interest Groups Versus Constituency Representation
The structural balance within a particular pluralist-democratic setup enables a focused representation of the public’s interest, and interest groups are but one concretized form of the same. Within interest groups, there are those that are representative of their own organizations, by extension themselves. These are called special interest groups. They have a small societal base (which include race and gender, among other societal divisions) and are pecuniary in nature, implying that their agenda is primarily for-profit and self-sustenance (p. 178). The other scope tackles constituency-representing organizations, an exact counter to the composition of the former (p. 178). Coalitions between similar special interest groups are possible in their effort at successful lobbying, but the primary factor of monetary interest still prevails (p. 179). This is also possible within constituency-representing organizations but the proper term to use would be public interest groups (p. 180), which could also be considered general in nature as the question of who is being represented is continually raised. In their impacts to society in general,