Learning Objectives
- Explore financial firms’ response to the 2008 housing crisis to understand how interest group members try to wield the levers of political power to shape policy.
- Summarize the challenges associated with interest group activity.
- Discuss the types of interest groups in the American political landscape and the different tactics they use.
- Explore the efforts of Occupy Wall Street to understand the challenges individuals face and the strategies they employ to make social and political changes.
- Analyze the tactics social movements use to advocate on their members’ behalf and contrast them with those of interest groups.