Political scientist David Truman argued that interest groups have a stabilizing effect upon the American political system because
a. Americans do not have overlapping group memberships.
b. groups compete and therefore check each other.
c. groups do not compete for political influence.
d. Americans rarely join groups to advocate for them.
e. they replace participation by citizens.
b
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