Politics and Society-Pressure Groups [IAS (Admin.) Mains Sociology]: Questions 1 - 5 of 5

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Question 1

Appeared in Year: 2014

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Distinguish between Political Parties and Pressure Groups.

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Political Parties and Pressure Groups

  • Pressure groups and political parties greatly resemble each other. Both of them are channels through which public can communicate with the government. Prima facie, both of them carry out representation, facilitate political participation and contribute to the policy process. However, in reality, groups and parti…

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Question 2

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Failure of Political Institutions give birth to pressure groups. Critically analyse.

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Failure of Political Institutions and Pressure Groups

  • Pressure Group is conceptual category of Pluralist Perspective on Power. Pluralist like Ramond Aron, Robert Dahl, Robert McKenzie. Pluralist use Parsonian ideas on Power that it is diffused in People and State is just arbiter among them. As social and cultural pluralism marks modern industrial so…

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Question 3

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Write short notes on: Pressure groups and economic development.

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  • It is an organization of persons with a common economic interest who try to persuade lawmaking decisions. These follow their political goal through lobbying the process by which individual and groups communicate with public officials in order to manipulate decisions of government. They even distribute influential literature and launch public campai…

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Question 4

Appeared in Year: 2021

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Explain how political parties and pressure groups are dialectically related to each other in terms of achieving their goals.

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A political party on the other hand, as we all know, is a group of people who contest elections to hold the power in the government. They are one of the most visible institutions in a democracy. These parties stand on some agenda that is propagated during the election; they announce to fulfill these agendas for the welfare of the society.

Pressure g…

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Question 5

Appeared in Year: 2022

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Illustrate with the examples the role of pressure groups in the formation of social policies. (Paper 1)

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Any group that for its own special interests or in the interests of larger public that it represents, attempts to influence legislative or governing institutions are known as pressure groups. Without participating in politics as such, these are groups that can influence the governments decisions.

According to Anthony Giddens pressure groups are the …

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