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Chapter Six: Interest Groups and Social Movement


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www.ingentaconnect.com/content/klu/volu/1999/00000010/00000003/00410444;jsessionid=5nbn9eqeh3jb9.alice
This site contains an article addressing the notion that social movements are more public in the orientation of their interests than interest groups. It challenges that notion by suggesting that it actually depends on context, as certain interest groups are actually more public in their orientation relative to social movements and vice versa. 

www.canyoncollege.edu/cc/political_sci/syllabus/ps396.htm

At this site you can enroll in an online course on interest groups and social movements offered by Canyon College. It includes a basic syllabus of the standard content as to topics covered in the class.

www.allacademic.com/meta/p143089_index.html

This site offers a scholarly article on the bureaucratization of social movements in particular and to a lesser extent on interest groups. This somewhat challenges contemporary notions that social movements are more “fluid” in their organizational and administrative structures and cultures relative to interest groups.

www.apsanet.org/~pop/Syllabi/Woliver_368.pdf

The site contains basic information on interest groups and social movements oriented toward certain premising questions.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb284/is_200212/ai_n8193916

At this site, students can find useful access points to scholarly literature on the impacts of political parties, interest groups and social movements on the construction and implementation of public policy.

www.allacademic.com/meta/p89013_index.html

At this site, there is an article on the institutionalization of the Christian right as a social movement with its component interest groups.

www.apsanet.org/imgtest/PSSept01GerondelaCruzSaitoSingh.pdf

This is an academic study of Asian-American’s social movements and interest groups. This is important because most of this type of literature is pre-occupied with larger ethno-racial groupings like African-Americans and Hispanics, and Asian-Americans are a largely unstudied group even though we have had a relatively robust population of Asian descent since the late 19th century.

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