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Special interest group. A special interest group (SIG) is a community within a larger organization with a shared interest in advancing a specific area of knowledge, learning or technology where members cooperate to effect or to produce solutions within their particular field, and may communicate, meet, and organize conferences.
Advocacy group. Advocacy groups, also known as lobby groups, interest groups, special interest groups, pressure groups, or public associations, use various forms of advocacy or lobbying to influence public opinion and ultimate public policy. [1] They play an important role in the development of political and social systems.
K Street in Washington, D.C., has become a metonym for the American lobbying industry.. Lobbying in the United States is paid activity in which special interest groups hire well-connected professional advocates, often lawyers, to argue for specific legislation in decision-making bodies such as the United States Congress.
Today, the term "special interest" has often been equated with Madison's sense of "faction". In addition, the Constitution sought to protect other freedoms, such as free speech. Accordingly, some believe the ability of individuals, groups, and corporations to lobby the government is protected by the right to petition [3] in the First Amendment.
Sometimes referred to as "protectionist groups", "private interest groups" or simply "interest groups". [1] Such groups are normally exclusive, as their membership is usually restricted to the section of society whose interests they represent: for example the British Medical Association (as those seeking to join the BMA must be medical practitioners or students training to enter the profession ...
Advocacy groups. American Medical Student Association. American Nurses Association. Business Leaders for Health Care Transformation https://www.blhct.org. California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee. Campaign for Better Health Care. Center for Health Progress. Colorado Consumer Health Initiative.
Terrorism. Special-interest terrorism and single-issue terrorism [1] are forms of terrorism that, unlike other forms such as right-wing, left-wing and religious terrorism, tend to focus on a few or only one specific issue rather than on more widespread political, religious or other social change. [2]
Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom. Campaign to Bring Back British Rail. Celtic League. Charter 88 (merged with the New Politics Network to form Unlock Democracy in 2007) Electoral Reform Society. English Defence League. Feminists Against Censorship. The Freedom Association. Labour Representation Committee.