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Unit 3 |
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Government |
Assignment |
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Interest
Group Research
This exercise is designed to help you understand what interest groups are and how they act within American politics. Interest groups play a key role in affecting electoral change through lobbying, campaign funding and engaging public participation.
1. Investigating Interest Group
Use the first link below to look through an extensive list of special interest groups or you may look through the other groups listed by category. Choose two of the interest groups to investigate. Then answer the questions listed below for both of the groups selected.
Interest
Group Options:
Special Interest Group
Political Index
Ecology and
the Environment
Natural Resources Defense Council
Ethnicity and
Race
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Mexican American League Defense and
Education Fund
League of United Latin American Citizens
Second
Amendment and Firearms
Labor Unions
American Federation of Teachers
National Education Association
Women’s Issues
National Committee for Equal Pay
National Organization for Women
Pro Choice Public Education Project
Public
Interest/Ideology
Citizens Against Government Waste
Center for Voting and Democracy
Public Interest Research Group
2. After selecting the groups answer the
questions below:
Question #1 is worth 1 point. Questions 2 – 7 are worth 4 points each for a total of 25.
This assignment must be 400 words or more. There is a loss of 2.5 points per 40 words
below 400.