Thursday, December 5, 2013

Essay #5 Outline: Interest Groups

ESSAY Prompt

Create your draft response for this essay.
Publish.

Essay 5
Different interest groups will choose different techniques to achieve their objectives based on their resources, characteristics, and goals.
a) describe each of the following techniques and explain why an interest group would choose each technique.
Litigation
Campaign contributions
Grassroots Lobbying / mass mobilization.

b) Select one of the following groups and identify the primary technique it uses from the list in part (a). Explain why the group you selected would employ that technique over the other two techniques.
American Medical Association
Sierra Club
NRA
NAACP

Essay Outline

Litigation- The process of taking legal action

Campaign Contributions- Money given to political campaigns to run for office. caps are set on how money a known organization can give versus an unknown organization.

Grassroots Lobbying/ Mass mobilization- Also known as indirect lobbying, is an attempt to affect the public opinion on legislature. With the intention of reaching the legislature and affecting the decision making process.

Part B Outline

NRA- The National Rifle Association is a nonprofit organization since 1871 and is an advocate of gun proficiency, ownership and safety.


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