Within a modern time the interest of individuals and collectives are become more and more recognized in political institutions through the use and lobbying of interest groups. Through the ability for individuals to organize or join an organization in which views and ideas are represented within a group of likeminded individuals allows for those without a voice a chance for the government to hear their opinions and suggestions. However the problems arise when the interest group excludes the majority and instead pushes their own agenda ignoring the request and opinions of the individual in exchange focusing on a system known as “Interest-Group Politics.” Furthermore interest groups promote a system in which whoever has the most money and access
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Overall how interest groups are intended to function is beneficial to society, however in the modern sense interest groups and lobbyists fall into the pocket of large corporations and those with the ability to pour large amounts of wealth into the system causing the individual to be unheard and a stray from a wide variety of groups with differing views, thus the idea that lobbyists are beneficial to the modern political institution must be adopted to a minimal …show more content…
This which occurs within modern democratic nations causes only certain political views to be based and causes ideological bias in democracy. However the idea that lobbyists controlling too much power is a modern concept is untrue as since even the 18th century worries of large groups becoming to powerful is outlined within the famed American Federalist Papers mainly the concept that society must “Extend the sphere, and take in a greater variety of parties and interests; [as it] make it less probable that a majority of the whole will have a common motive to invade the rights of other citizens.” Throughout the paper and through the quote American founding fathers outline the idea that through the growing strength of a few factions causes not only the rights of citizens to be infringed but the concept that their right to government and having a voice are being personally attacked by these “factions” which would eventually become the modern day lobbyist organizations. Overall the idea that a few small core of lobbyist organizations which large bases and large amounts of funding may appear to be a transparent idea that makes the lobbying of governmental institutions easier, in reality the movement from a large wide-variety of interest groups or factions to a small core of powerful groups
Overall how interest groups are intended to function is beneficial to society, however in the modern sense interest groups and lobbyists fall into the pocket of large corporations and those with the ability to pour large amounts of wealth into the system causing the individual to be unheard and a stray from a wide variety of groups with differing views, thus the idea that lobbyists are beneficial to the modern political institution must be adopted to a minimal …show more content…
This which occurs within modern democratic nations causes only certain political views to be based and causes ideological bias in democracy. However the idea that lobbyists controlling too much power is a modern concept is untrue as since even the 18th century worries of large groups becoming to powerful is outlined within the famed American Federalist Papers mainly the concept that society must “Extend the sphere, and take in a greater variety of parties and interests; [as it] make it less probable that a majority of the whole will have a common motive to invade the rights of other citizens.” Throughout the paper and through the quote American founding fathers outline the idea that through the growing strength of a few factions causes not only the rights of citizens to be infringed but the concept that their right to government and having a voice are being personally attacked by these “factions” which would eventually become the modern day lobbyist organizations. Overall the idea that a few small core of lobbyist organizations which large bases and large amounts of funding may appear to be a transparent idea that makes the lobbying of governmental institutions easier, in reality the movement from a large wide-variety of interest groups or factions to a small core of powerful groups