Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Author Stephanie Vance discussed the role of lobbyists and interest groups in Washington, D.C. This lesson looks at various examples of ...

The pharmaceutical industry, which is well known for its well-resourced lobbying campaigns, has a lesser-known tactic for influencing policy: bankrolling ostensibly independent nonprofit organizations ...

Shadowy special-interest groups sometimes spend as much money on negative political advertisements as the campaigns of major candidates spend. Loopholes in campaign-finance laws open the door to big ...

We often hear politicians call their opponents an “interest group.” What does that mean? It can be misleading. When the citizens of a town try to fix a bad ordinance so that their lives are safer, ...

Currently, 427 of the Interest Groups within Audigent’s library have a scale exceeding 50 million unique Chrome browsers, and more than 100 Interest Groups have scale exceeding 100 million unique ...

A year of gridlock amid divided government and Republican infighting on Capitol Hill drove down spending by the biggest interest groups by about 13 percent in 2023 from the previous year. In a year in ...

A coalition of union-backed groups in San Jose are calling for a November ballot measure to “limit campaign contributions by special interests” and shift mayoral elections to presidential election ...