Special Interest Group

(noun)

A Special Interest Group (SIG) is a community with an interest in advancing a specific area of knowledge, learning, or technology where members cooperate to affect or to produce solutions within their particular field and may communicate, meet, and organize conferences. At times, they may also advocate or lobby on a particular issue or on a range of issues.

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Examples of Special Interest Group in the following topics:

  • Policy Making and Special Interests

    • Interest groups that can advance their cause to the policymaking process tend to possess certain key traits.
    • Foreign governments can also behave as interest groups when it comes to U.S. foreign policy.
    • Because of the wide variety of special interest groups, conflict between groups on an issue is common.
    • Events, such as the signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), highlight the differences among special interest groups and the competition that takes place between them to capture the attention of policymakers.
    • Describe the formation of special-interest groups and their role in the creation of policy

  • Lobbyists and Special Interest Groups

    • Lobbying describes paid activity in which special interest groups argue for specific legislation in decision-making bodies.
    • This group was countered by a strong food lobby backed by Coca-Cola, Del Monte, and makers of frozen pizza.
    • Lobbying in the United States describes paid activity in which special interests hire well-connected professional advocates, often lawyers, to argue for specific legislation in decision-making bodies such as the United States Congress.
    • Others work for advocacy groups, trade associations, companies, and state and local governments.
    • While the bulk of lobbying happens by business and professional interests who hire paid professionals, some lobbyists represent non-profits and work pro bono for issues in which they are personally interested.

  • Organization of Interest Groups

    • Interest groups can come in varied forms and organize under different methods.
    • A Special Interest Group (SIG) is a community with particular interest in advancing a specific area of knowledge, learning or technology.Members cooperate to affect or to produce solutions within their particular field, and may communicate, meet, and organize conferences.
    • Public policy, in general, is a dynamic interplay of decisions between the President, Congress and interest groups.
    • Organizations may also have Special Interest Groups which are normally focused on a mutual interest or shared characteristic of a subset of members of the organization.
    • Discuss the theories behind interest groups and their effects on government

  • The U.S. Political System

    • The United States is a representative federal democracy driven by elections in which citizens' and lobbyists' diverse interests compete.
    • The United States is also a diverse society, and citizens' competing interests are reflected in politics.
    • To understand the electoral process, we must understand how different interests come into play.
    • Although individual citizens are the only ones who can cast votes, special interest groups and lobbyists may influence elections and law-making with money and other resources.
    • At times, this influence has grown so noticeable that some have called into question whether the U.S. is truly a democracy of the people or something more like an oligarchy of special interest groups.

  • Interest Groups vs. Political Parties

    • It was financed mainly by large corporations and industrial interests.
    • Political parties are lobbied vigorously by organizations, businesses, and special interest groups such as trades unions.
    • Social movements are a type of group action.
    • It is in their best interest to preserve the status quo.
    • Bush's re-election campaign in 2004 was largely funded by special interest groups such as financial banks and large industrial corporations.

  • Interest Groups

    • Interest groups are any voluntary associations that seek to publicly promote and create advantages for their cause.
    • The term interest group refers to nearly any voluntary association that seeks to publicly promote and create advantages for its cause.
    • A Special Interest Group (SIG) is a community with an interest in advancing a specific area of knowledge, learning, or technology where members cooperate to affect or to produce solutions within their particular field.
    • Smaller groups representing broad interests of a group may be formed with the purpose of benefiting the group over an extended period of time and in many ways.
    • Employers' organizations represent the interests of a group of businesses in the same industry.

  • Interest Groups, Lobbyists, and PACs

    • Interest groups attempt to influence Members of Congress in a variety of ways, such as lobbying and financing campaigns using PACs.
    • Interest groups represent people or organizations with common concerns and interests.
    • There are a wide variety of interest groups representing a variety of constituencies including business, labor, consumers, other governments, and various single issue groups.
    • Interest groups may take on a variety of strategies including public education, encouraging public participation, and providing education and special information for civil servants and politicians.
    • Describe how outside groups work to shape policy at the federal level through the use of interest groups, lobbyists, and PACs.

  • Hypergeometric (optional)

    • You are concerned with a group of interest, called the first group.
    • The random variable X = the number of items from the group of interest.
    • The size of the group of interest (first group) is 80.
    • The group of interest (first group) is the defective group because the probability question asks for the probability of at most 2 defective VCRs.
    • You are president of an on-campus special events organization.

  • Introduction to hypothesis testing for two proportions (special topic)

    • Here we consider an experiment for patients who underwent CPR for a heart attack and were subsequently admitted to a hospital. 31 These patients were randomly divided into a treatment group where they received a blood thinner or the control group where they did not receive a blood thinner.
    • The outcome variable of interest was whether the patients survived for at least 24 hours.
    • Let pc represent the true survival rate of people who do not receive a blood thinner (corresponding to the control group) and pt represent the survival rate for people receiving a blood thinner (corresponding to the treatment group).
    • We are interested in whether the blood thinners are helpful or harmful, so this should be a two-sided test.
    • H0 : Blood thinners do not have an overall survival effect, i.e. the survival proportions are the same in each group. pt − pc = 0.

  • Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft

    • Such groupings based on feelings of togetherness and mutual bonds are maintained by members of the group who see the existence of the group as their key goal.
    • Characteristics of these groups include slight specialization and division of labor, strong personal relationships, and relatively simple social institutions.
    • Gesellschaft, frequently translated as "society," refers to associations in which self-interest is the primary justification for membership.
    • The specialization of professional roles holds them together, and often formal authority is necessary to maintain structures.
    • Such groups are sustained by their members' individual aims and goals.