PSCI 3120 - Interest Groups and Citizen Politics

An examination of interest group politics and citizen participation. Topics include interest group roles, formation and growth, resources, techniques of lobbying, and a critical examination of the influence of interest groups on the American political process. The citizen politics portion of the course focuses largely on the non-electoral forms of political participation including participation through interest group association, activities that use various institutional channels, and those forms of participation which occur outside such channels.

Credits: 3 hours