Pressure groups
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- Created on: 21-09-20 09:28
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- Pressure groups
- how do they vary?
- resources available
- status as an insider or outsider group
- INSIDER
- Negotiate quietly behind the scenes
- use private contacts in Whitehall
- E.g. National Farmers Union
- Rely on contacts with ministers and civil servants to achieve their aims.
- Negotiate quietly behind the scenes
- OUTSIDER
- email campaigns and petitions
- staging demonstrations and publicity stunts
- e.g. BLM
- staging demonstrations and publicity stunts
- not consulted by the government
- email campaigns and petitions
- INSIDER
- status as an insider or outsider group
- lobby MPs
- briefing them on issues of concern
- evidence to committees
- briefing them on issues of concern
- resources available
- More influence from certain pressure groups?
- Resources
- Tactics and leadership
- RSPCA banned hunting with dogs in 2004
- Collaborating with league against cruel sports and international fund for animals
- which access points in the UK to target
- RSPCA banned hunting with dogs in 2004
- Public support
- Government attitudes
- Groups
- Sectional/ interest
- seek to promote the interests of an occupation or another group for society
- e.g. Law society is open to solicitors in England and wales
- trade unions represent members in negotiations w employers over wages+ conditions
- seek to promote the interests of an occupation or another group for society
- cause/ promotional
- focus on achieving a particular goal or drawing attention to an issue or group of related issues
- e.g. greenpeace
- social movement
- similar to cause groups
- but more loosely structured
- e.g. Camps for Climate Action
- similar to cause groups
- Sectional/ interest
- how do they vary?
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