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Author Watts, Duncan.

Title Pressure groups / Duncan Watts
Published Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 236 pages)
Series Politics study guides
Politics study guides.
Contents COPYRIGHT; Contents; Boxes; Tables; Introduction; CHAPTER 1 Classifying Pressure Groups; CHAPTER 2 How Pressure Groups Operate; CHAPTER 3 Pressure Group Resources and Success; CHAPTER 4 Trends in Group Activity since 1979; CHAPTER 5 Protest Politics and Direct Action; CHAPTER 6 Pressure Groups and the Devolved Legislatures; CHAPTER 7 Lobbying the European Union; CHAPTER 8 The Abolition of Hunting with Dogs: an English, Welsh and Scottish Case Study; CHAPTER 9 Pressure Groups and Democracy; References; Index
Summary Pressure Groups are an increasingly important feature of the political landscape and they are active on many levels, local, national or European. They reflect a diverse compass of interests from the well-known (the National Farmers' Union) to the less familiar (the Zip Fastener Association) and interact with a wide range of political players in different parts of the political system: parties, the media, government and parliament. They are involved at every stage of the political process, from raising issues and agenda setting to policy implementation and monitoring. This book provides an acce
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Subject Pressure groups -- Great Britain
Pressure groups -- Great Britain -- Influence
Political participation -- Great Britain
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Political Advocacy.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- General.
Political participation
Pressure groups
Pressure groups -- Influence
Great Britain
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780748630448
0748630449
9780748624393
0748624392