ABSTRACT
Interest groups focus a major part of their effort on the executive branch of government through their lobbying in Congress, their direct contact with the bureaucracy, and court litigation. Vice-President Walter Mondale, a veteran of the Senate, reviewed Moore's lobbying strategy at Camp David with the president and his senior advisers in April 1978. As a result of this review, the lobbying staff enlarges from four to seven members, veterans of Washington politics were added, clerical staff doubled, the number of bills to be targeted reduced, and the president began courting both political leadership and party members in Congress. Corporatism describes governmental decision making in several European nations based on cooperative interaction among organized business, organized labor, and national governmental bureaucracy. The major way corporatism differs from pluralist models found in the United States is that the interest groups exist outside the government in the United States, whereas they operate as part of the decision-making machinery of some European nations.
