Objective:
Warm-up:
1. What can be done to make sure this bill doesn't pass next session?
2. Who will be more effective in preventing passage of this bill, individuals or groups? Why?
3. What strategies can a special interest group use to influence legislation?
Homework:
Answer Questions 3-5
Vocabulary: incentive, solidarity incentives, material incentives, purposive incentive, ideological interest groups, public-interest lobby
The Local Influence of PACs:
Specific Political Action Committees:
NRA/Political Victory Fund
American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees
Democrat Republican Independent Voter Education
UAW-V-CAP/United Auto Workers
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Committee on Political Education
American Medical Association Political Action Committee