Chapter Nine

1. What percentage of the workforce is enrolled in unions?

2. Arrange the following interest groups in terms of the size of their membership, from smallest to largest:

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3. Which individual is the founder of Common Cause, a leading public interest group, and is the author of Unsafe at Any Speed, a book critical of the automobile industry's safety record?

4. Which interest group was formed specifically to help fund female Democratic candidates and generate publicity for their campaigns?

5. Which famous media campaign by opponents to President Clinton's health care reform plan portrayed a husband and wife criticizing the plan around their kitchen table?

6. About how much more money did corporate political action committees (PACs) contribute to federal candidates in the 1998 midterm elections compared to labor political action committees?