Methods of Pressure groups
- Created by: Katie Beaumont
- Created on: 15-12-15 18:25
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- Methods of PGs
- Ministers & Civil Ministers
- These work at the heart of the 'core executive' which develops and makes govt policy.
- Govts want to consult groups: to advice on policy process, desire to gain the cooperation of important groups and inform the affected groups of proposed policies or govt measures.
- It is strange to think economic, industrial and trade policies would be developed without consulting major corporations, trade associations and business groups.
- The PGs will have to attend formal meetings with civil servants and policy committees,
- This is the most important way of exerting influence on the govt.
- Parliament
- PGs may use Parliamentary lobbying to get contacts with ministers and civil servants.
- Lobbyists also aim to make contacts with sympathetic MPs and Peers who can provide them with expensively produced briefing and information packs.
- Lobbyists are important because they are independently minded backbenchers and they are the introduction of the departmental select committees.
- Lobbyists also aim to make contacts with sympathetic MPs and Peers who can provide them with expensively produced briefing and information packs.
- PGs can have influence through Private Members' Bills, Parliamentary Questions and select committee inquiries.
- PGs may use Parliamentary lobbying to get contacts with ministers and civil servants.
- Political Parties
- Influencing political parties can lead to influencing govt policy.
- They do this through funding and donations. e.g the trade unions provided funding for Labour and controlled most of the votes at the party's conference,
- Labour and the Conservatives now rely on business and wealthy individuals for their main source of funding.
- They do this through funding and donations. e.g the trade unions provided funding for Labour and controlled most of the votes at the party's conference,
- Influencing political parties can lead to influencing govt policy.
- Public Opinion
- This is adopted usually by outsider groups but insider groups also engage in public opinion.
- The purpose of direct action is to influence the govt indirectly by pushing issues up the political agenda and demonstrating the strength of commitment of the public for a particular cause.
- The hope is that the govt will pay attention through fear of suffering electoral consequences.
- The purpose of direct action is to influence the govt indirectly by pushing issues up the political agenda and demonstrating the strength of commitment of the public for a particular cause.
- Public campaigns, petitions and demonstrations aims to get lots of media attention and gain wider influence e,g anti-fees protests by students.
- PGs can damage the image of a govt or the PM by influencing public opinion.
- Direct Action
- This overlaps with some forms of the public opinion.
- direct action aims to cause disruption or inconvenience e.g strikes blockades etc.
- However non violent direct actions sometimes takes the form of civil disobedience e,g Greenham Common Women's Peace camp in the 1980s.
- Ministers & Civil Ministers
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