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NSPCC (internet grooming law 2014), BMA (smoking ban 2014)
Name two pressure groups which have helped to MAKE LAWS
Help for Heroes
Which pressure group REPRESENTS people soldiers
better health care for soldiers
What have Help for Heroes influenced government to provide?
Stonewall
Which pressure group REPRESENTS homosexual people?
civil partnerships and gay marriage
What have Stonewall successfully campaigned for?
pluralist
REPRESENTATION of different groups leads to a _________ democracy
1.5 million
How many people PARTICIPATED in the Countryside Alliance march in 2003
2 million
How many people PARTICIPATED in the stop the war coalition march in 2003?
Liberty
Which pressure group EDUCATES people about civil rights?
Amnesty International
Which pressure group EDUCATES people about political pressure abroad e.g. in Tibet
Planestupid
Which pressure group PROVIDES AN OUTLET for public anger?
POLITICAL PROCESS IS LEGITIMISED THROUGH PRESSURE GROUPS. IT GIVES PEOPLE A VOICE, EVEN IF IT IS SOMETIMES IGNORED
POLITICAL PROCESS IS LEGITIMISED THROUGH PRESSURE GROUPS. IT GIVES PEOPLE A VOICE, EVEN IF IT IS SOMETIMES IGNORED
government overload, insider groups, lobbying, undemocratic leadership
How can pressure groups be seen as undemocratic?
2005
the foot and mouth out break in ____ lead the government to compensate farmers, but not the tourism industry which lost £2 billion
the new GP contract reduced GPs working hours but increased their pay
Example of power of the BMA
Greenpeace
Name a pressure group run by an unelected board
Unite
Name a pressure group which gives money to Labour without consulting members
the government is paralysed by too many PGs who all demand too many things
What is the government overload theory
Patricia Hewitt, £5000
Ex-minister ______ ______ claimed that for _____ per day she could get clients privileged access to the gove
Bell Pottinger, China
The lobbying company ____ _________ got Dyson's complaints against _____ raised by Cameron in a meeting with the CHinese PM the next day
