'Major lobbying campaigns typically involve a combination of personal visits, issue analysis, political contributions, grass roots appeals, and public information campaigns.' (Lehne 2001).

INTRODUCTION TO THE WORLD OF INTEREST GROUPS An interest group is an organised group of individuals sharing common objectives who actively attempt to influence policymakers in all three branches of the government and at all levels. There are five types of interest group in America today; economic, public interest, attitudinal, sectional and intergovernmental. The interest group in America has been in existence for some time. The French political observer Alexis De Tocqueville described in 1835 how …

…in order to gain access to the new congressional leadership their partisan pattern of donations (to the democrats) would have to speedily change. This points to main issue in the context of business interest groups in the United States, access to elected politicians costs money and so business, having money, gets heard over causes which rely on donations such as environmental or social issues. In the USA the bigger your wallet the louder your voice.