Internet Exercises Common Cause
http://www.commoncause.org/site/pp.asp?c=dkLNK1MQIwG&b=186966 Christian Coalition
http://www.cc.org/ Amnesty International
http://www.amnesty.org/ Protest.Net
http://www.protest.net/ Greenpeace
http://www.greenpeace.org/ Yahoo Guide to Political Organizations
http://dir.yahoo.com/Government/U_S__Government/Politics/Organizations/ The Federal Election Commission
This is the home site of the principle federal regulator of interest group and PAC political action committee use of money in federal political campaigns.
http://www.fec.gov/ The Public Interest Research Group PIRG
PIRG has chapters on many college campuses and the site provides state-by-state policy and other information.
http://www.uspirg.org The Sierra Club
The Sierra Club, one of the oldest environmental protection interest groups, promotes conservation. Its website provides information on its activities.
http://www.sierraclub.org/ Townhall.com
The website includes policy and political information and has a lively chat room.
http://www.townhall.com/ Suggested Library of Congress Headings Political Participation--United States
http://library.lib.asu.edu/search/dPolitical+participation+--+United+States./dpolitical+participation+united+states/-5,-1,0,B/browse Other LC Headings for Political Participation
http://library.lib.asu.edu/search/dpolitical+participation/dpolitical+participation/1,338,1203,B/aexact&dpolitical+participation&1,11 American Civil Liberties Union
The ACLU is always prominent in First Amendment and other basic rights disputes.
http://www.aclu.org/ ACLJ American Center for Law & Justice
Their specialty is church-and-state issues, and they often collide with the ACLU. In fact, the two of them tend to demonize each other!
http://www.aclj.org/ NRA.org National Rifle Association
Is the principle source of opposition to most forms of gun control.
http://www.nra.org/ The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence
Is a product of the anti-NRA efforts of Handgun Control, Inc. To adjudicate their gun control disputes for yourself, consult Gun Laws, Gun Control and Gun Rights from the Pittsburgh University School of Law's JURIST site.
http://www.bradycampaign.org/ Find Law Professionals Election Law, Government Ethics & Lobbying
For those who are serious about attempting to regulate lobbying activity in Congress and state legislatures by the thousands of American interest groups.
http://library.findlaw.com/1999/Jan/1/241466.html The Free Rider Problem
This site, from Russell Hardin of Stanford University, is a sophisticated treatment of a problem that is epidemic among American interest groups.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/free-rider/ | 