The American Democracy, 10th Edition (Patterson)

Chapter 9: Interest Groups: Organizing for Influence

Web Links


Common Cause

( http://www.commoncause.org/ )
Christian Coalition

( http://www.cc.org/ )
Amnesty International

( http://www.amnesty.org/ )
Protest.Net

( http://www.protest.net/ )
Greenpeace

( http://www.greenpeace.org/ )
Yahoo Guide to Political Organizations

( http://dir.yahoo.com/Government/U_S__Government/Politics/Organizations/ )
The Federal Election Commission
This is the home site of the principle federal regulator of interest-group and political action committee use of money in federal political campaigns.
( http://www.fec.gov/ )
The Public Interest Research Group (PIRG)
PIRG has chapters on many college campuses, and the site provides state-by-state policy and other information.
( http://www.uspirg.org )
The Sierra Club
The Sierra Club, one of the oldest environmental protection interest groups, promotes conservation. Its website provides information on its activities.
( http://www.sierraclub.org/ )
Townhall.com
The website includes policy and political information and has a lively chat room.
( http://townhall.com/ )
American Civil Liberties Union
The ACLU is always prominent in First Amendment and other basic rights disputes.
( http://www.aclu.org/ )
ACLJ—American Center for Law & Justice
Their specialty is church-and-state issues, and they often collide with the ACLU. In fact, the two of them tend to demonize each other!
( http://www.aclj.org/ )
NRA.org—National Rifle Association
The principle source of opposition to most forms of gun control.
( http://www.nra.org/ )
The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence
A product of the anti-NRA efforts of Handgun Control, Inc.
( http://www.bradycampaign.org/ )
The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence
To adjudicate their gun control disputes for yourself, consult "Gun Laws, Gun Control and Gun Rights" from the Pittsburgh University School of Law's JURIST site.
( http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/gunlaw.htm )
FindLaw Professionals—Election Law, Government Ethics & Lobbying
Article by Jan Witold Baran seeking to provide a general explanation about election law. Subject matter is broken down into three categories: campaign finance regulation, ethics regulation, and lobbying regulation.
( http://library.findlaw.com/1999/Jan/1/241466.html )
The Free Rider Problem
This site, from Russell Hardin of Stanford University, is a sophisticated treatment of a problem that is epidemic among American interest groups.
( http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/free-rider/ )
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