pressure groups Flashcards
pluralist democracy
many acess points to power
political influence is dispersed among a wide variety if elected and unelected bodies
types of pressure groups
sectional interest
cause/promotional
insider
outsider
sectional/ interest
- represents particular group within society eg muslim council of britan
cause/ promotional
promote a particular issue eg Greenpeace have shared interest in protecting enviroment
insider
privileged acess to gov decision making
eg British medical association
outsider
do not posses acess to decision making so have to gain public support eg Gurkha justice campaign
how do insider status achieve success
if gov decides to cinsult with pressure group then teh groups influence is garunteed
specialist knowledge
political circumstances eg enviromental groups have become more important recently
political bias trade unions with labour / conservatives with big bussiness pressure groups
powerful lobbying firms set their main bases in importantn decision making centres eg london brussels
other means of achieving sucess
- public appeals
groups such as Greenpeace are reluctant to engage the gov so engage the public - social media
amnesty international oxfam freinds of earth valuabel way of keeping public informed
clickocracy - online activism 38 degrees
civil disobedience
- a risky strategy but one can create immediate publicity and can even give rise to so much distruption that the gov decideds to back down
industrial action
used by trade unions
RIPE
fufuill at least one to be successful
Resources
Idealogical compatability with gov
Eopularity
Expertise
why was stop the war coalission unesccusfull
in 2003 stop the war coalition organised biggest demonstration in british history against blairs support of american led invasion of iraq
although the march was peacful adessed by tony benn and jeremy corbyn
the lack of sucess was because of not haveing idealogical compatability
