And in many rich countries fishing communities, though hardly populous, exert concentrated lobbying power that overwhelms the diffuse interests of the majority.

在很多富国，捕鱼团体虽然人数不多，但却施加了集中的游说力量，压倒了分散的大多数人的利益。

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That is why states with the initiative and referendum process must protect the interests of small businesses whose influence is too diffuse to easily organize.

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According to this view, narrow intense interests gain the upper hand in the long run over broad diffuse ones, and this tends to enlarge the state.

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