The interest groups and Social Movements

This reading is mainly about organizations and their contributions to make changes and how their approaches are; they use to forms their organizations.

 “Olson argues that you can separate” diffuse interests” the will of majority, from “concentrated interests, “minority interests. Take for example how trade policy is made in the country: a certain sector of the economy, whether it is industry, agriculture, or services, might lobby the government for tariffs on certain products from foreign countries. This would result in high prices being placed on these items”.

America get their oil from other countries, the  government official does not feel the  burden because they don’t have to deal with the high gas prices so , increasing the prices on the items or gas doesn’t affect them as it will affect the people. We can look at the “free-rider scenarios, He also mentioned the “ free riders problem” refer to a situation where some individuals in a populations either consume more than their fair share of a common resource, or pay less than their fair share of the cost of a common resource”.  We can said that people on public assistant are free-riders cause the majorities do not contribute, they do   nothing all day and expect the Government to provide for them.