Subgovernments in the United States

Concept of Subgovernments

In the U.S., in the context of Political Participation, Interest Groups and Lobbying, Subgovernments has the following meaning: The concept of subgovernments – sometimes referred to as iron triangles – implies that government policy is largely made by well-defined networks of legislators, government bureaucrats, and private sector interests internally tied together by specific policy matters with which they are all concerned and externally insulated to a significant degree from other subgovernments and from oversight by other parts of government or other groups. For the most part, the public knows or seems to care little about the detail or broad outlines of policy leaving the relatively few government and private sector representatives involved with policy making considerable discretion. (Source of this definition of Subgovernments : University of Texas)

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• Political Participation
• Interest Groups
• Lobbying