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Why is grassroots lobbying an effective political tactic?
a. Grassroots lobbying shapes public opinion, and electedofficials are known to respond to opinion.
b. interest groups rarely engage in grassp=roots lobbying, sowhen they use this tactic, elected officials take notice
c. Grassroots lobbyists collect and bundle together campaigncontributions from multiple individuals. This results in one largecampaign contribution and thus maximizes the impact of eachcontributor
d. Grassrotes lobbying depends on building personal connectionswith elected officials, who are more likely to listen to groupsthat they know and like
2. Criticis of pluratsim would note that
a. government decisions reflect the balance of competinginterests in society
b. resources and political power are unequally distributedwithin society
c. individuals with shared grievances always form interestgroups to press their demands upon government
d. government is too responsive to the demands of interestgroups