Interest group liberalism is associated with which of the following criticisms?
A) In an effort to please and appease every interest, agencies proliferate, conflicting regulations expand, programs multiply, and the budgets skyrocket.
B) Real power is held by relatively few people, key groups, and institutions that get nearly all they want from government.
C) Interest groups win some and lose some, but no group wins or loses all the time, and democratic government is well served by their competition.
D) The framers of the Constitution intended that groups serve to bargain for various interests in American society, and this has proven a wise and relatively fair, open system.
E) The interest group system is dominated by liberal interest groups who have been successfully pushing an agenda that has made it hard for the police to fight crime, contributed to declining moral values and bankrupted the government with giveaways to welfare freeloaders.
Ans: A) In an effort to please and appease every interest, agencies proliferate, conflicting regulations expand, programs multiply, and the budgets skyrocket.
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