Questions dealing with group organization

1.1 How many members are there in your group?

1.1a About what percentage of the total potential audience does that represent?

1.2 How many employees does your group have at the national level?

1.2a How many of these employees are involved primarily in trying to influence government policy as opposed to running the organization itself?

1.3 How are responsibilities divided between the national office and lower levels of your organization?

1.4 Are some of the federations or regional level branches more powerful than others?

1.4a If yes, which ones?

1.4b If yes, why are they more powerful?

1.5 In the ———, how are political goals decided upon?

1.6 In an organization as large as yours, you must sometimes find that the interests of one part conflict with the interests of other parts. When this happens, how do you resolve the conflict?

1.7 Often in large organizations such as yours the lack of homogeneity and the consequent internal differences reduce the influence of the group. Do you believe that the diversity and large membership of your group reduce its political influence?

1.7a If yes, how? Can you give me some examples?

1.7b If no, why not? How do you avoid the dangers?

1.8 Often in large organizations there are serious problems in assuring that the grass-roots will accept the agreements and compromises negotiated among the leaders of the group and other interests and the state. Do you sometimes have such problems?

8a If no, why doesn't this happen?