Unofficial Actors and Their Roles in Public Policy
Unofficial Actors and Their Roles in Public Policy
Unofficial Actors and Their Roles in Public Policy
ANALYSIS
UNOFFICIAL ACTORS AND THEIR ROLES IN PUBLIC POLICY
Unofficial Actors and Their Roles in Public Policy
Individual
Interest groups
Citizens
Communications
Political parties
media
Think tanks
UNOFFICIAL ACTORS AND THEIR ROLES IN PUBLIC POLICY
• Friends of Earth:
https://www.youtube.com/user/FriendsoftheEarthInt
• Fortune Magazine once labeled the AIPAC the second most powerful lobby in America. According to
AIPAC’s website, the 100,000-member group has championed the passage of more than a dozen
bills to impose tougher sanctions on Iran and bolster security assistance to Israel in the past 15
years. Israel has been by far the largest recipient of U.S. foreign aid since World War II, to the tune
of almost $3 billion per year over the past quarter-century. AIPAC certainly deserves some of the
credit for that continuing cash flow. While AIPAC doesn’t officially make contributions to
candidates, it does coordinate a political financing network of sorts, mobilizing wealthy Jewish-
American donors on both sides of the political aisle — including tycoons Sheldon Adelson and
George Soros
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_qJiid6l1k
PUBLIC INTEREST GROUPS
https://www.youtube.com/user/FriendsoftheEar
thInt
Types of Interest Groups
• https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/
PEAK ASSOCIATIONS
• Functions
• Organization of the legislative
branch based on the political
parties.
• Transmission of political preferences: Creation of packages of policy
ideas to appeals voters and to shape legislation.
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Think tanks and other research organizations.
• Carnegie Endowment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sq5Erhz_z7E
• https://www.brookings.edu
• https://carnegieendowment.org
• https://timep.org // https://timep.org/about-us/
• http://acpss.ahram.org.eg