BIL Association is an interest group based in California that engages in lobbying through legislators and bureaucrats to promote trade. The group mobilizes and organizes societal interests freely, in a decentralized fashion.
The group is unable to conduct one
of its events in a state that is non-democratic in nature, as one of its main requirements
is that the political opportunity structure be wide open. This implies that BIL Association
works under a ________ pattern.
A. corporatist
B. pluralist
C. primordialist
D. determinist
E. socialistic
Question 2
Which of the following differentiates a pluralist and a corporatist pattern?
A. Under corporatism there is a free market in interest group formation as opposed to
under pluralism.
B. Under pluralism, the government centrally organizes societal interests, while under
corporatism, the state plays relatively little role in fostering or impeding interest
group formation.
C. Under pluralism, collective action takes the top-down approach, while corporatism
promotes the grassroots mobilization of people.
D. The pluralistic pattern requires that interest groups have institutionalized channels
of representation in the state as opposed to the corporatist pattern which
encourages interest groups to mobilize and organize societal interests freely.
E. While in the pluralist pattern, interest groups form from within civil society, in the
corporatist pattern the state influences interest group formation.
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