Lesson on Tuesday, February 20, 2018

Aim: What is an interest group "entrepreneur" and what factors influence the success of an effort to organize a new interest group?

Bell Ringer: Review Journals 62-65 (10 min)


Objectives:

10.2 Analyze interest group success in terms of "entrepreneurial" behavior.


Agenda:

INTEREST GROUP ROLE PLAYING

1. Review the handout on Interest Groups Role Playing. By today, students should have chosen their group and interest group topic.(15 min)

(check previous lesson for source)

2. "existing groups stand in equilibrium until some type of disturbance (such as falling wages or declining farms prices) forces new groups to form." page 275

3. United Farms Workers and Cesar Chavez
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wznw9TA2jXk (5 min)

4. "The question that remains, then, is not whether various opposing interests are represented but how well they are represented." page 278

5. Journal 66 - What are the functions and four benefits of an interest group? (according to the video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGo9Asfwric (9 min)

Terms to know: interest group/lobby, lobbyist, agenda building, program monitoring, interest group entrepreneur,


Home Learning:

1. Read 10.3

2. Read Politics of Global Change on pages 282 and 283

2.  Journal 67 - Describe why the Chinese government has hired lobbying firms  such as The Duberstein Group, Patton Boggs, and Hogan & Harton.