Whereas economic interests and most cause groups benefit a narrow constituency, public interest groups promote issues of general public concern (e.g., environmental protection, human rights, and consumer rights).
"That may be an appropriate answer for a narrow constituency," he said.
Each is important to some narrow constituency: a particular labor union, say, or even a single company.
Nevertheless, despite this narrow constituency, the bill is garnering support in Congress.
It's a story of a public sector that has consistently done less with more, and a liberalism that has often defended the interests of narrow constituencies -- public-employee unions, affluent seniors, the education bureaucracy -- rather than the broader middle class.
The House is more than ever dominated by Southern religious extremists who, outside of their narrow constituencies, are loathed and unelectable.
It is appropriate that members of Congress pay a price for their support of wasteful projects that serve narrow constituencies, but this is not a major source of harm to the country.
However, for the establishment of a viable governance system, the political parties of Sindh will have to rise above their narrow constituency-related issues and politicians will have to think as statesmen for the larger benefit of the city and the province, and through this bridge the ethnic divide to begin with.
General guidance on conducting an economic evaluation recommends adopting a broad societal analytic perspective as the gold standard, but it is widely recognised that a narrower analytic perspective (e.g. health care system) may be sufficient if the purpose of the evaluation is to inform decisions that will be made within a narrower constituency (e.g. health care system) [ 18].
