Pressure Groups- Key topic 4

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What are the roles of a pressure group?
provide people with an avenue for non-electoral participation,represents a sectional interest to advance a common cause, gives information to the gov and the general Public
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how can pressure groups be classified by aims?
SECTIONAL-(protect the interest of a certain group of society, membership is exclusive) CAUSE=(seeks to promote a specific cause-attitude=change views,political=achieve goals,sectional-protect a certain group of society NSPCC)
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how can pressure groups be classified by status?
Insider (core-2 way relationship over broad range of issues, specialist- narrow area of expertise, periphiral-they are barely needed like the dogs trust) Outsider (potential-due to nature of cause, necessity-unlikely to achieve status, ideological)
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what factors affect a pressure groups success?
achievability, public receptivity, status, methods, expertise, resources (human=membership, material=money)
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How do pressure groups interact with the EU?
Pressure groups go to the EU if a nation is unsymapthetic about a cause, this is especially evident with environmental issues as the EU is comitted to environmental protection, because of this many of Britains beaches has been cleared up (SAS)
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What is the influence of Eurogroups?
The European Communities act 1972- European law is more important than UK law if they conflict. Eurogroups are formed from likeminded pressure groups around the EU, there views can be heard if they have sufficent resources and members
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What are access points?
In the USA there is a clear seperation of power so there is more access points, however there are less access points in the UK but in recent years there has been more due to the Scottish Parliament and the Welsh Assembly
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What is lobbying?
traditional methods include writing letters, petitions and marches. Lobbying invludes groups writing to or visiting westminister to talk to an MP that concerns their area of choice, you can also have proffessional lobbying
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How do pressure groups influence legally, directly and through political parties?
direct=consultation with civil servents and ministers on policy, Legal= court finds that the Gov has acted in a manner beyond authority granted, party= they have connections to parties to influence policies (easier with an oposition party)
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What is direct action campaigns?
involves civil disobidience, illegality,violence. make politicians notice and broaden public perception, undermines representative democracy. there has been campaigns against fox hunting, vivisection, airport expansion
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How do pressure groups use the media?
Paid Media (TV,newspaper, magazines- Bernando used magazine to show fate of vulnerable children, NSPCC used TV to stop child abuse) unpaid (organising stunts, planning marches, high-speed internet access)
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What happened at Brent Spar?
(1995)= SHELL gained permission from Gov to dump 14,500 ton platform in to the North Atlantic, Greenpeace boarded the spar, flew in a satelitte uplonk, flew in reporters to show SHELL attempts to remove activists from the platform
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What are environmental pressure groups?
Insider (World wide fund for nature, RSPB and RSPCA, RSPCA was consulted in the 1991 dangerous dog act) direct (Daniel Hooper dug himself in tunnels as an anti-road protest)
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How are presure groups officers chosen? how do they make decisions/
pressure group leaders are appointed rather than elected, key decisions are made by a central committee or board which is unelected BMA and AA are poor at consulting members
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Why are pressure groups democratic?
occur naturally under any system of Gov, allow people to articulate views, additional avenue for participation, can represent a larger range of views, moderate views of more extreme members, they educate the public and gov
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Why are pressure groups undemocratic?
they have too much influence, encourages a revolving door, only represents a minority interest, some members only pay a fee, it is unequal as some groups have more money
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