SECTIONAL INTEREST GROUPS AND PUBLIC INTEREST GROUPS Pressure groups are organisations that attempt to influence government policies. But unlike political parties, pressure groups do not aim to dir
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MOVEMENT GROUPS As in the case of interest groups, the groups involved with movements also include a very wide variety. The various examples mentioned above already indicate a simple distinction. M
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HOW DO THEY INFLUENCE POLITICS? Pressure groups and movements exert influence on politics in a variety of ways: * They try to gain public support and sympathy for their goal
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IS THEIR INFLUENCE HEALTHY? It may initially appear that it is not healthy for groups that promote interest of one section to have influence in democracy. A democracy must look after the inte
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