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Touchstone 4: Create an Interest Group

ASSIGNMENT: In this course, you learned that forming or joining interest groups is one way that Americans can participate in the U.S. political system. Recall that interest groups are formal associations of individuals or organizations that act to advance a shared interest and often attempt to influence government decision-making and public policy. For this assignment, you will create a hypothetical interest group around a cause or issue that is of interest to you. You will establish policy goals and strategize to meet those goals. By doing so, you will apply what you’ve learned about how the U.S. political system functions and about interest group formation, strategies, and incentives.

To complete the assignment, download the Create an Interest Group template and follow the directions below. 
You will return the completed template as your Touchstone submission.

Create an Interest Group Template

Example Create an Interest Group Submission (PDF)

In order to foster learning and growth, all essays you submit must be newly written specifically for this course. Any plagiarized or recycled work will result in a Plagiarism Detected alert. Review this tutorial for more about plagiarism and the Plagiarism Detected alert: 
Touchstones: Academic Integrity Guidelines. For guidance on the use of generative AI technology, review 
Ethical Standards and Appropriate Use of AI.


A. Directions

Step 1: Select an issue or cause that is of interest to you, and prepare to create a hypothetical interest group that will advocate for the interest. The issue or cause could be big and national in scope (for example, gun safety); it could be small and local in scope (for example, cleanliness of the public park in your town); or anywhere in between. Note: Submissions that analyze existing, real-world interest groups will be returned ungraded.

 

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Review the 
Role of Interest Groups in Democracy tutorial and the 
Types of Interest Groups tutorial to help you reflect on the functions of interest groups.

Once you’ve selected an issue or cause, think about your goals and what you would want your interest group to accomplish. Talk to friends, family, or community members, or research on the Internet to learn more about the issue.

Step 2: Download the Create an Interest Group template and review the prompts. Think about the specific policy and membership goals of your hypothetical interest group, the barriers to achieving those goals, and the strategies that would best lead you to success.

 

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Keep in mind that the best strategies may be different for different interest groups, and may depend on how much public or political support exists for your goals, the membership base for your interest group, and how much money and political influence your group is likely to have.

 

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Prepare to respond to the prompts by reviewing the 
Interest Group Strategies tutorial and the 
Factors that Influence the Power of Interest Groups tutorial.

Step 3: Fill in the Create an Interest Group template. You will respond to the following prompts. Remember to include in-text citations when summarizing, quoting, paraphrasing, or including statistics or data from outside information sources!

· Your Interest Group

· In approximately 6-8 sentences, give your hypothetical interest group a name, and describe the issue or cause it supports or opposes and why.

· What type of interest group is it?

· Goals

· What are your specific policy goals? Specify at least 2.

· Which level(s) of government and which government branch(es) will you target, and why?

· Is there one political party that might be more receptive to your goals? Why or why not?

· What barriers exist to meeting your goals? Specify 2 or more. Examples might include the free rider problem, lack of popular support, lack of political support, financial barriers, or others.

· How might your group overcome each of those barriers?

· Membership

· Who will you target for membership and how will you grow it?

· What sorts of incentives can your interest group provide?

· Actions

· Choose 
two inside lobbying approaches and 
two outside lobbying approaches that your interest group will use. Explain how each will contribute to the goals. You can choose from the menu provided (below), or brainstorm your own ideas.

· REFERENCES (include, as needed, for any sources cited)

Checklist for Success:

❒ Did you review the suggested tutorials?
❒ Did you create a hypothetical interest group (i.e., not analyze an existing one)?
❒ Did you fill in all sections of the Create an Interest Group template?
❒ Did you review the grading rubric and compare it to your response?
❒ Did you review the example Create an Interest Group submission to see an example of a completed assignment?
❒ Did you include in-text citations when summarizing, quoting, paraphrasing, or including statistics or data from outside information sources?
❒ Did you proofread your work for proper grammar, punctuation, spelling, and capitalization?

C. Requirements

The following requirements must be met for your submission to be graded:

· Submission must include your name and the date.

· Use a readable 11- or 12-point font.

· Composition must be original and written for this assignment and all writing must be appropriate for an academic context.

· Plagiarism of any kind is strictly prohibited.

· Acceptable file formats include .doc or .docx file.


D. Additional Resources

The following resources will be helpful to you as you work on this assignment:

1.

APA In-Text Citations: The Basics

a. In-text citations are inserted into your writing to document the source of your information. APA-style in-text citations include the author and the date of your source (Jones, 1998). This site provides an overview of when and how to include APA-style in-text citations in your response.

2.

APA Reference List: Basic Rules

b. This site includes a comprehensive overview of APA-style reference lists, as well as individual pages with instructions on how to format reference lists for various source types, including electronic sources (i.e., articles found on websites).

b. The website also includes a citation generator, which will cite your sources automatically in APA. You may use this citation generator for your reference list.

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