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| When: |
01/07/10 - 03/11/10 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM Thursdays
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| Professor: |
Susan Dimock
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Location: | Seminar 317, Floor 3, Room 317
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Syllabus: |
WSDXPS100.pdf
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| Description: |
This course will explore the role of interest groups and social movement organizations in American politics. The first part of the course will examine the formation and internal dynamics of social movement organizations and interest groups. We will discuss why people protest, how groups get started, why people join groups and how groups maintain themselves. The second part of the course will investigate how organized interests attempt to achieve their goals. We will examine the strategies movement organizations and groups employ to achieve their policy goals and evaluate the effects of their actions. In this section of the course we will focus on Congress, lobbying, indirect lobbying, and how interest groups work with the executive branch and the courts. |
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