Normally, the group model is associated with the legislature rather than the bureaucracy, but it also has long been recognized by scholars that the “neutral” executive branch of government is buffeted by pressure groups, too. The numerous studies by political scientists on federal regulatory agencies, for example, all point to the same conclusion: that the agency ultimately is captured by the group that it is meant to regulate, and its administrators grow increasingly unable to distinguish between policies that are beneficial to the interests of the groups being regulated. What is good for the group is good for the nation in the eyes of the regulators.16 Figure 10 - 3 illustrates the group model.