Interest Groups In Twilight
As the popularity of fantasy, action packed romance films with vampires grows, the fan bases for those thrilling films grow as well. With those fan bases come many duties, including but not limited to: long endless lines waiting for premiers, one of a kind homemade t-shirts that no one else has (for clear reasons), and the formation of interest groups. More often then not, interest groups fall apart before they even have a chance to get anything significant done. That is why Vampires for Justice has hired me to help them with their interest group for the highly rated movie Twilight. The survival of an interest group lies within these key elements: gaining members, effective lobbying, and identifying and solving
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The majority of interest groups are large businesses that are looking out for their best interest. With these types of interest groups, only the members of that business or contributors to that interest group benefit. However, there is a smaller category within the interest groups; which is the public good group. The public good interest groups, unlike the larger business interest groups, “seek a collective good, [where] the achievement of which will not selectively or materially benefit the membership or activists of the organization” (Kollman 380). In simpler words, an interest group is a group of people that are not affiliated with the government who influence the government to get what they want. These groups influence the government by the act of …show more content…
If we take the previous example and examine it more closely, we can point out some of the issues and possible solutions. Once Vampires for Justice has received the dreaded news of the current issues at the movie theatre they address the problem as fast as possible and inform the members of the issue. The group agrees to all pitch in money, buy signs, and go out and protest against the shutdown of Twilight. However, there are a few members who think that if they do not pitch in money or waste their time protesting while everyone else does, it will be a win-win situation for them because they do not have to sacrifice any of their time or money and still get the outcome they want. This is called the collective-action problem. There are a few different ways to overcome the collective-action problem, all with different approaches and different outcomes. One way that they could overcome it would be by the process of special donor. This process consists of finding a member of the group who pays for most, if not all, of the cost which in this case would be for the materials for the protest. Even though this approach would buy all of the materials for the protest, it would still be missing actual members to protest so it would not be the best choice of solutions. A similar but different solution would be the entrepreneur choice. The entrepreneur choice consists of finding an individual that does not need
The majority of interest groups are large businesses that are looking out for their best interest. With these types of interest groups, only the members of that business or contributors to that interest group benefit. However, there is a smaller category within the interest groups; which is the public good group. The public good interest groups, unlike the larger business interest groups, “seek a collective good, [where] the achievement of which will not selectively or materially benefit the membership or activists of the organization” (Kollman 380). In simpler words, an interest group is a group of people that are not affiliated with the government who influence the government to get what they want. These groups influence the government by the act of …show more content…
If we take the previous example and examine it more closely, we can point out some of the issues and possible solutions. Once Vampires for Justice has received the dreaded news of the current issues at the movie theatre they address the problem as fast as possible and inform the members of the issue. The group agrees to all pitch in money, buy signs, and go out and protest against the shutdown of Twilight. However, there are a few members who think that if they do not pitch in money or waste their time protesting while everyone else does, it will be a win-win situation for them because they do not have to sacrifice any of their time or money and still get the outcome they want. This is called the collective-action problem. There are a few different ways to overcome the collective-action problem, all with different approaches and different outcomes. One way that they could overcome it would be by the process of special donor. This process consists of finding a member of the group who pays for most, if not all, of the cost which in this case would be for the materials for the protest. Even though this approach would buy all of the materials for the protest, it would still be missing actual members to protest so it would not be the best choice of solutions. A similar but different solution would be the entrepreneur choice. The entrepreneur choice consists of finding an individual that does not need