Interest aggregation is the activity in which the political demands of groups and individuals are combined into policy programs, as defined by Almond, Powell, Dalton, and Strom.[1]
Interest aggregation includes those methods employed by individuals to effect change, commonly called personal interest aggregation, or by groups, to seek the support of or make demands of the government.
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edit- ^ Almond, Gabriel; Powell, Bingham; Dalton, Russell; Strøm, Kaare (Eds.) Comparative Politics Today. 8th edition. New York: Addison-Wesley-Longman, pp. 634–684