BIL Association is an interest group based in California that engages in lobbying through legislators and bureaucrats to promote trade. The group mobilizes and organizes societal interests freely, in a decentralized fashion
The group is unable to conduct one
of its events in a state that is non-democratic in nature, as one of its main requirements
is that the political opportunity structure be wide open. This implies that BIL Association
works under a ________ pattern.
A. corporatist
B. pluralist
C. primordialist
D. determinist
E. socialistic
B
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