POL 101 - American Government - Textbook

• To breakdown and appraise the two party system
• To understand the 3 main functions of parties: party organization, party in the electorate, and party in government
• To analyze the rise of divided government and party polarization
• To understand the impact of interest groups on public policy and how they influence Congress, the executive branch, and the courts
• To evaluate the benefits and costs of interest groups and lobbying

Click on the video below or this link https://youtu.be/ORqBQroUU74 for the assigned media:

Click on the video below or this link https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2012/01/27/145923803/the-friday-podcast-a-former-lobbyist-tells-all for the assigned media:

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• American Government 2E. Project: OpenStax, Rice University. Located at: https://openstax.org/details/books/american-government-2e?Book%20details License: CC BY 4.0
• Political Parties. Authored by: Thomas Patterson. Project: HarvardXEdX. Located at: https://scholar.harvard.edu/thomaspatterson/teaching. License: Copyright 2020 Harvard University.
• A Former Lobbyist Tells All, January 27, 2012. Project: Planet Money/NPR's Planet Money Podcast. Located at: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2012/01/27/145923803/the-friday-podcast-a-former-lobbyist-tells-all License: Copyright 2020 National Public Radio (NPR).
•  NRA Under Fire, March 24, 2020. Authored by: Frontline/PBS. Located at: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/nra-under-fire/ License: Copyright 2020 PBS.