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If I have something that I'm interested in (say, clear air), and I want the government to do something about it, when do I move from an interest to a special in
by danielweber 14y ago
If I have something that I'm interested in (say, clear air), and I want the government to do something about it, when do I move from an interest to a special interest?
- digitalengineer 14y agoGood question! If you start hyring former and current politicians, sponsor elections, pressure your employees, try sneek in legislation, I'd say you're special interest.
- justin66 14y ago"Special interest," just like "big government," is nothing but a TV buzzword. It's not as if these are political science terms of art. Imagine experts in a field choosing to use a term normally used for measurement of bulk to describe the function of a system, or wasting their time categorizing interests into "special" and "not special" based on a fixed set of criteria. Political science is deeply boring, but it's not THAT boring.