7.1 Discuss the roles and different types of interest groups and various ways by which interest groups can influence the policymaking process.
7.2 Differentiate between national, public, and private interests and models to explain policymakers’ motivations for national and public policies.
7.3 Identify examples and characteristics of public goods and common pool resources.
7.4 Conceptualize questions of ecological health and environmental issues as public good and common pool resource questions, and provide examples.
7.5 Describe why individually rational behavior leads to collective action problems that collide with collective welfare and solutions to overcome those problems.