The Impact on Interest Groups on Twentieth Century American Government

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Interest Group is defined as 'an organized body of individuals who try
to influence public policy.' This system is designed so that interest groups
would be an instrument of public influence on politics to create changes, but
would not threaten the government much. Whether this is still the case or not
is an important question that we must find out. Interest groups play many
different roles in the American political system, such as representation,
participation, education, and program monitoring. Representation is the
function that we see most often and the function we aut…