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The Politics of United States Foreign Policy Chapter 13. Group Politics. Interest groups Social movements Think Tanks. Group Life Cycles. Early life Later life Survival and success: Political instability effects Insider/outsider effects Issue salience effects. Group Influence.
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Group Politics • Interest groups • Social movements • Think Tanks
Group Life Cycles • Early life • Later life • Survival and success: • Political instability effects • Insider/outsider effects • Issue salience effects
Group Influence • Lobbying • Influencing agendas, public opinion and elections • Consultation • Recruitment • Visibility/activities
Strategies of Group Influence Direct – inside Indirect – outside Coalition building Grassroots mobilization • Access to power • Technocrat
Phases of Group Politics: The Cold War • Patterns • Types of groups: anticommunist • National security and public policy • Veterans and military support • Public and civic groups • Businesses and corporations • Labor unions • Religious groups • Ethnic groups • Results: direct and indirect
The Cold War and Military-Industrial-Scientific Infrastructure • Military establishment • Industry • Congress • Academia
The Cold War and the Foreign Policy Establishment • Shared history • Focus on anticommunism • Commitment to global leadership • Preference for the political center • Work under the radar
1960s: The Rise of Movements Left Right Neo-conservatism Christian right • Civil Rights • Violent, non-violent • Anti-war
Phases of Group Politics:Post-Vietnam • Collapse of the foreign policy establishment • Proliferation of groups, diversity and activism • Pervasive military-industrial-scientific infrastructure
Post-Cold War Military-Industrial-Scientific Infrastructure • Continuation of roles: military, industry, congress and academia • 70s-80s: challenged • Downsizing • Post-9/11 renewal
Think Tanks • over past 20 years think tanks have become influential actors in foreign policy realm • are research organizations with primary purpose as public policy research and influence policy debate • important because all research done is meant to influence policy, channel views directly and attuned to daily shifts in political interests • what do they do? • think, write and publish • advocate particular policy positions • define issues, set agendas and stake out different policy positions • do a lot of government thinking for them • Problems • private organization with no public oversight • groupthink