Active Citizenship Key Terms

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  • Created on: 18-01-18 23:41
Pressure groups
a group of people who share a certain set of ideas and want to influence decision makers and government policies in order to promote their interests
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Direct Action
forms of political protests that move beyond traditional pressure group methods and may involve civil disobedience e.g. violence
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Lobbying
that act of trying to persuade those in power to use it in support of ones own cause or interest. Generally it refers to trying to influence MPs and civil servants
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Advocacy
the act of speaking on behalf of someone else
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Think Tank
a pressure group specifically formed to develop policy proposals and campaign for their acceptance amongst opinion formers and policy makers
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Elitsm
the theory that political power is concentrated in the hands of the few a power elite
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Insiders
group that operate inside the political system e.g. Trade Unions under Labour
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Outsiders
groups that operate outside the political system e.g. Greenpeace
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Greenpeace
a non-governmental environmental organisation
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Fathers for Justice
To campaign for Fathers rights after divorces
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The Countryside Alliance
Promotes the interests of rural people
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Pluralism
A political system were a wide range of opinions and ideologies are tolerated, implies a largely dissolved power.
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Petitions
A formal written request, typically one signed by many people, appealing to a authority in respect of a particular cause e.g. change.org
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forms of political protests that move beyond traditional pressure group methods and may involve civil disobedience e.g. violence

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Direct Action

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that act of trying to persuade those in power to use it in support of ones own cause or interest. Generally it refers to trying to influence MPs and civil servants

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the act of speaking on behalf of someone else

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a pressure group specifically formed to develop policy proposals and campaign for their acceptance amongst opinion formers and policy makers

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