Discussion Questions

1. Identify the primary types of interest groups and discuss how they are similar and different.
Texas Core Curriculum: CT, PR, COMM

2. What is dark money? Discuss the reasons that dark money may be beneficial or harmful to politics and policy in Texas.
Texas Core Curriculum: CT, PR, COMM

3. What is a free-rider and why is this a problem for organized interests?
Texas Core Curriculum: CT, PR, COMM

4. How do PACs influence elections?
Texas Core Curriculum: CT, COMM

5. How are organized interests potentially positive and negative for Texas? Consider the pluralist and hyperpluralist perspective.
Texas Core Curriculum: CT, SR, COMM