POLS 1400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Japanese Canadians, Advantageous, Social Inequality
11 Apr 2017
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Chapter 16: advocacy groups, social movements and lobbying. Interest or pressure groups can be defined as any group that seeks to influence government policy without contesting elections (without putting forward its own candidates) Interest or pressure groups are often identified as organizations whose members act together to influence public policy in order to promote their common interest or concerns. An interest group becomes a pressure group when it actively pursues an objective with the government while an advocacy group originally forms due to non-political purposes. A civil society refers to institutions and organizations that exist between the individual and family on the one hand and the government or state on the other, such as churches, unions, charities, advocacy groups and social movements. Lobbying refers to any organized attempt to influence the authorities (pressure groups often engage in this) Advocacy groups have a narrow focus organized around a single, central interest which they try to impress on those in authority.
