[ifwp] Re: How not to define membership classes

[Richard J. Sexton]

At 12:39 AM 1/4/99 -0500, Milton Mueller wrote:
>"Special interest groups," yes. SIGS, no. The "SIG" moniker, with its images of small
>groupings of the like-minded within voluntary associations, is a bit too innocuous.
>The connotation of the term "special interest group" as it is used in politics and
>political science is much more appropriate: essentially economic interests banding
>together to seize the power of the state to dispense economic rents.

Usually, but not always economic interests. You could have a SIG
of DNS zone admins, for example.


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