1. Describe how interests groups both help and hinder the ability of citizens to actively participate in a well-functioning pluralist democracy.
2. Mention the positive benefits and the negative costs of interest groups, as a whole, on democratic processes.
3. Describe why interest groups, as a whole, are a net positive or negative for democracy.
3. While you can use a particular interest groups as anecdotal evidence for your argument, the overall argument must not focus on only one or few interest groups.
