Title: Educational Interest Groups - Diversity, Autonomous Power Centers, Postmaterialism - School, Public, Union, and Schools   - StateUniversity.com
Headings: Educational Interest Groups
Educational Interest Groups
Diversity, Autonomous Power Centers, Postmaterialism
Diversity
Autonomous Power Centers
Postmaterialism
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Content: Postmaterialism
A third perspective sees a weakening of the hierarchical structures of organizing interests. In the post-materialist era, Ronald Inglehard, Terry Clark, Jeffrey Berry, and other social scientists argue that political parties no longer play a key role in mobilizing voter turnout. The union is losing its direct influence over its membership. Ideologically based groups, both left and right, seem to have lost much of their reputation in the nation's capital. Instead, organized interests are realigned in several ways. They have become more focused on "quality of life" issues, less organized along rigid class cleavages, and more pragmatic about governmental and market solutions to educational and social problems. Increasingly, racial and class categories are less predictive of how citizens view and decide on educational policy issues. In short, this early-twenty-first-century reconfiguration of interest group politics is likely to shape the research community's understanding of group-based influence in public education. See also: E DUCATIONAL A CCOUNTABILITY;