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The standard academic term for this is "interest group" (at least in the U.S.) and Google suggests that it the most common term as well; unless there's any objection I'd like to move this to "interest group." Christopher Parham (talk) 01:52, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
Moved content. J. D. Redding
This should be changed:
"typically through the use of financial contributions to politicians to bias political opinion to create incentives for politicians to receive further financial contributions."
Directly paying legislators to bias political opinion is corruption, which definately happens, but which definately isn't "typically". Most interest groups influence public decisions with other means than financial ones. "Typically" interest groups would argue for a certain public decision based on analysises showing that their view on the matter should be met. Tobias.
Add section on "interest group theory" although may be better off in lobbying (once merged with Interest representation: Academic overview)? Links:
Madmedea 09:46, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
"Interests groups destroy America" is a biased statement.
It appears to be about the same subject. Should it be merged into this article? -- de Facto ( talk). 10:50, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
I don't have much idea on this topic. But during my History class i came across Interest Groups as one of the influential factor that played a significant role in the formation of modern America. It would be nice if expert on this subject coin that part as well. Aniljava ( talk) 06:34, 30 December 2008 (UTC)
This page is a bit vague. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.203.189.119 ( talk) 10:40, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: Found page moved by cut and paste. Target page tagged and reported at WP:REPAIR Ronhjones (Talk) 01:12, 15 March 2010 (UTC)
Interest group →
Advocacy group — Interest group is too general and easily confused with
Special Interest Group. It it potentially contentious because there are some 350 direct links (and some 150 redirects via other titles) More details on
Talk:Interest group below
PeterEastern (
talk) 14:37, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
I am not comfortable with the current distinction in wikipedia between 'Interest Group' and 'Special Interest Group'. An Interest Group is currently defined as being about lobbying/pressuring/advocacy and pressure group and advocacy group redirect to it; a Special Interest Group is described as being non-advocacy and seems to be restricted to scientific interests (to quote In technical fields, a Special Interest Group (SIG) is a community with a particular interest in a specific technical area). So lets check some current usage of the terms.
I have just spotted the Special Interest Group describes a interest group focused on learning, but that Special interest group (lower case version) redirected here as did these verions special interest group and Special-interest group- I have changed the redirect for all of these to 'Special Interest Group' and have also sorted all the articles that used those titles to point them to the appropriate article.
My conclusion is that Interest group is too general for this article and that the IRS term of Advocacy group would be more appropriate (which also works well for us here in the UK). I therefore propose to make the following changes:-
PeterEastern ( talk) 20:47, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
Here is a proposed introductory paragraph for the replacement page:
An Interest Group (also Special interest group) is made up of individuals or organizations with a shared area interest, pastime, concern or cause. Interest groups can be found for virtually any field of endeavor to almost any levels of details. Some are large formalized legal entities and may be of national or international significance, other are small, informal, transient and local. Some Lobby groups and Advocacy groups are referred to as 'Interest groups' or 'Special interest groups'. Other example of interest groups include learned societies, university societies. Special Interest Group (SIG) often refers to an interest groups for a technical subject. In publishing 'Special Interest' is a category for books for a wide variety specific subjects (for example Nature & Wildlife, Travel, Sports, How-to, Cooking). [1]
References
There is some debate about where this article should redirect to, either to Advocacy group or to Interest group (disambiguation). Given that this page used to be the location for the advocacy group article I suggest that it should go straight to Advocacy group for now until more of the links into this article are adjusted to point directly to Advocacy group . There must be some 200 links into this article with some 1,000 views per day. PeterEastern ( talk) 15:04, 16 March 2010 (UTC)
I'm not sure this section is very useful. It just contains a list of pressure groups with generally conflicting objectives, and it's not true that these groups are direct adversaries. The suggestion that the The Automobile Association and the Pedestrian's Association are directly in conflict is particularly contentious. -- Ef80 ( talk) 20:07, 6 November 2015 (UTC)
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Much like the article evaluation posted on the Talk Page for Lobbying, certain sections of the article reveal a biased viewpoint. On a whole, the article does well to remain neutral especially in regards to such a controversial topic, but there do exist examples of slight bias leaking through. Under the Influence section, for instance, a claim is made that "large businesses... are key producers within their countries economy, and therefore, their interests are important to the government as their contribution are important to the economy." While this may be an assumption made by the general population, this claim cannot be made without a proper citation. As it stands without a citation, this statement can be construed as anti-big business. Shrino ( talk) 22:08, 10 September 2019 (UTC)
I propose merging Classification of advocacy groups, Special interest group, Foreign policy interest group and Ethnic interest group into Advocacy group. I think the content in these articles can easily be explained within Advocacy group (which is the topic they all overlap with or firmly belong within), and a merger would not cause any article-size or weighting problems in Advocacy group. The four articles appear to be largely WP:OR or linked to scholarship by a few individuals. I fail to see why this content couldn't be covered within the Advocacy group article. Snooganssnoogans ( talk) 04:15, 12 January 2022 (UTC)
Must the aforementionned articles be merged?
For
Against:
(Voting ends on 23:59, 10 may 2022 (UTC)
-- Joujyuze ( talk) 20:08, 6 May 2022 (UTC)
How do advocacy groups operate under neo-pluralism? Could this section be elaborated upon a bit more, and include a helpful link as well? Iisabellasanch ( talk) 23:31, 11 April 2022 (UTC)
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The standard academic term for this is "interest group" (at least in the U.S.) and Google suggests that it the most common term as well; unless there's any objection I'd like to move this to "interest group." Christopher Parham (talk) 01:52, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
Moved content. J. D. Redding
This should be changed:
"typically through the use of financial contributions to politicians to bias political opinion to create incentives for politicians to receive further financial contributions."
Directly paying legislators to bias political opinion is corruption, which definately happens, but which definately isn't "typically". Most interest groups influence public decisions with other means than financial ones. "Typically" interest groups would argue for a certain public decision based on analysises showing that their view on the matter should be met. Tobias.
Add section on "interest group theory" although may be better off in lobbying (once merged with Interest representation: Academic overview)? Links:
Madmedea 09:46, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
"Interests groups destroy America" is a biased statement.
It appears to be about the same subject. Should it be merged into this article? -- de Facto ( talk). 10:50, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
I don't have much idea on this topic. But during my History class i came across Interest Groups as one of the influential factor that played a significant role in the formation of modern America. It would be nice if expert on this subject coin that part as well. Aniljava ( talk) 06:34, 30 December 2008 (UTC)
This page is a bit vague. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.203.189.119 ( talk) 10:40, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: Found page moved by cut and paste. Target page tagged and reported at WP:REPAIR Ronhjones (Talk) 01:12, 15 March 2010 (UTC)
Interest group →
Advocacy group — Interest group is too general and easily confused with
Special Interest Group. It it potentially contentious because there are some 350 direct links (and some 150 redirects via other titles) More details on
Talk:Interest group below
PeterEastern (
talk) 14:37, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
I am not comfortable with the current distinction in wikipedia between 'Interest Group' and 'Special Interest Group'. An Interest Group is currently defined as being about lobbying/pressuring/advocacy and pressure group and advocacy group redirect to it; a Special Interest Group is described as being non-advocacy and seems to be restricted to scientific interests (to quote In technical fields, a Special Interest Group (SIG) is a community with a particular interest in a specific technical area). So lets check some current usage of the terms.
I have just spotted the Special Interest Group describes a interest group focused on learning, but that Special interest group (lower case version) redirected here as did these verions special interest group and Special-interest group- I have changed the redirect for all of these to 'Special Interest Group' and have also sorted all the articles that used those titles to point them to the appropriate article.
My conclusion is that Interest group is too general for this article and that the IRS term of Advocacy group would be more appropriate (which also works well for us here in the UK). I therefore propose to make the following changes:-
PeterEastern ( talk) 20:47, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
Here is a proposed introductory paragraph for the replacement page:
An Interest Group (also Special interest group) is made up of individuals or organizations with a shared area interest, pastime, concern or cause. Interest groups can be found for virtually any field of endeavor to almost any levels of details. Some are large formalized legal entities and may be of national or international significance, other are small, informal, transient and local. Some Lobby groups and Advocacy groups are referred to as 'Interest groups' or 'Special interest groups'. Other example of interest groups include learned societies, university societies. Special Interest Group (SIG) often refers to an interest groups for a technical subject. In publishing 'Special Interest' is a category for books for a wide variety specific subjects (for example Nature & Wildlife, Travel, Sports, How-to, Cooking). [1]
References
There is some debate about where this article should redirect to, either to Advocacy group or to Interest group (disambiguation). Given that this page used to be the location for the advocacy group article I suggest that it should go straight to Advocacy group for now until more of the links into this article are adjusted to point directly to Advocacy group . There must be some 200 links into this article with some 1,000 views per day. PeterEastern ( talk) 15:04, 16 March 2010 (UTC)
I'm not sure this section is very useful. It just contains a list of pressure groups with generally conflicting objectives, and it's not true that these groups are direct adversaries. The suggestion that the The Automobile Association and the Pedestrian's Association are directly in conflict is particularly contentious. -- Ef80 ( talk) 20:07, 6 November 2015 (UTC)
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Much like the article evaluation posted on the Talk Page for Lobbying, certain sections of the article reveal a biased viewpoint. On a whole, the article does well to remain neutral especially in regards to such a controversial topic, but there do exist examples of slight bias leaking through. Under the Influence section, for instance, a claim is made that "large businesses... are key producers within their countries economy, and therefore, their interests are important to the government as their contribution are important to the economy." While this may be an assumption made by the general population, this claim cannot be made without a proper citation. As it stands without a citation, this statement can be construed as anti-big business. Shrino ( talk) 22:08, 10 September 2019 (UTC)
I propose merging Classification of advocacy groups, Special interest group, Foreign policy interest group and Ethnic interest group into Advocacy group. I think the content in these articles can easily be explained within Advocacy group (which is the topic they all overlap with or firmly belong within), and a merger would not cause any article-size or weighting problems in Advocacy group. The four articles appear to be largely WP:OR or linked to scholarship by a few individuals. I fail to see why this content couldn't be covered within the Advocacy group article. Snooganssnoogans ( talk) 04:15, 12 January 2022 (UTC)
Must the aforementionned articles be merged?
For
Against:
(Voting ends on 23:59, 10 may 2022 (UTC)
-- Joujyuze ( talk) 20:08, 6 May 2022 (UTC)
How do advocacy groups operate under neo-pluralism? Could this section be elaborated upon a bit more, and include a helpful link as well? Iisabellasanch ( talk) 23:31, 11 April 2022 (UTC)
This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 17 January 2022 and 15 May 2022. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Iisabellasanch ( article contribs). Peer reviewers: Leamanda. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Angelica.gnlz ( talk • contribs) 21:38, 2 May 2022 (UTC)
An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect Special interest and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 October 16#Special interest until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. QueenofBithynia ( talk) 20:12, 16 October 2022 (UTC)