Chapter 6 Interest Groups

One permanent feature of our political landscape is the division of Americans into contending factions. Much of our political history can be captured in the rise and fall of these groups, their conflicts, and their compromises. Beyond thier families, most Americans owe their top loyalty to an economic group, a professional group, and ideological group, and any one of hundreds other causes which have thier own group. Today interest groups seem to dominate the political scene far more than do political parties.