Rock the Vote
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A brief overview of your interest group (be sure to put its name in bold in the first sentence) and the scope of the article goes here.[1]
The following list of sections should serve as a loose guideline for developing the body of your article. The works cited in references 2-5 are all fake; their purpose is to serve as a formatting model for your own citations.
History
This section should describe the interest group's founding and development. It would probably be a good idea to divide it into chronological subsections, for example:
Rock the Vote, a private non-profit interest group, was founded in 1990 by members of the recording industry. Their aim was to use connections in the entertainment industry and the media to promote young people to vote. At a time when a very low percentage of young Americans voted, this group was formed to encourage young people to let their voice be heard and teach them that their participation in politics can make a difference. This group chose the media directed at American youth as the best outlet for confronting the problem of low youth involvement in the political realm.
In 1992, RTV began registering young voters, and contributed to a 20% increase in voters aged 18-29 from the previous election in 1988. RTV reached out to young people through their “Get Loud” messages, Public Service Announcements that ran on the Music Television Channel (MTV) and celebrities’ public endorsement of youth involvement in voting.
Though RTV continued with voting campaigns, the 1996 number of young voters was less than in 1992, and by 2000 there were less young voters than there were in 1988 before the youth mobilization through RTV had begun. After this lag in two elections, RTV, and other groups aimed at organizing young voters, started a “20 Million Loud” campaign aimed at bringing 20 million young voters to the polls in 2004. The numbers for voters aged between 18 and 29 exceeded this goal, and RTV advertised the slogan “20 Million Proud”.
Current objectives and activities
This section should discuss the group's current initiatives and tactics for influencing political outcomes (which may or may not be very different from its original goals and modus operandi).[2]
Organizational structure
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Achievements
This section should recount the group's major achievements, including but not limited to legislative and/or legal victories.[4]
Public perception and controversies
As a non-partisan group, RTV has has always faced the challenge of finding ways to mobilize voters without actually supporting a certain candidate, party or issue. Therefore, when RTV leaders attempt to inform youth on certain issues and promote their relevance to the youth population, they must be careful to not lend support to one side or the other so as to not lose support from donors, other leaders and young voters who come from a variety of political orientations. This issue has created some opposition to RTV’s efforts in that some claim that the youth population is mostly liberal and that RTV has leaned toward the left in its promotion of issue awareness.
Another opposition group questions what percentage of the young voters RTV has claimed to mobilize would have voted without the RTV campaign. In this vein, several polls have been conducted among young Americans, including one that asks young voters if they had witnessed or been affected by any of RTV’s various projects in the media. These polls aimed to pinpoint just how many young voters had been affected by RTV as opposed to how many would have voted regardless of the campaign.
References
- ↑ See the "Writing an Encyclopedia Article" handout for more details.
- ↑ "The Things We Do and How We Do Them," Interest Group X. 2006. Retrieved July 21, 2009 from http://www.interestgroupx.org/things_we_do.html
- ↑ First Author and Second Author, "The Organizational Structure of Interest Group X," Fake Journal of Nonexistent Scholarship 36:2 (2015) pp. 36-52.
- ↑ "Major Success for Interest Group X," Anytown Daily News, January 1, 2015, p. A6.
- ↑ Kelso, Tony, ed., & Cogan, Brian, ed. (2008). Most the Polls: Youth votes, popular culture, and democratic engagement. United States of America: Lexington Books. "Rock the Vote: Building political power for young people". Available: http://www.rockthevote.com/. Accessed: September 25, 2009. Shea, Daniel M., ed., & Green, John C., ed. (2007). Fountain of Youth: Strategies and tactics for mobilizing America's young voters. United States of America: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.