POL 2101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Sponsorship Scandal, Policy, Voluntary Sector
27 Sep 2017
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Themes: key features, strategies to influence, relations between government and groups, lobbying. They can be presented as narrow interest groups because they tend to focus on one particular issue: supplementary function of representation role which advocacy groups play. Generally permanent because they are long term orientated. Due to permanent nature - highly organized, professionalized, bureaucratic, have specific policy areas they are devoted to. Emerge to address a specific issue after resolution, they disappear. Late (cid:1005)(cid:1013)(cid:1012)(cid:1004)"s free trade de(cid:271)ates blooming of anti and pro-free trade groups. Once this issue was decided on, they all disappeared. Rare moments where these groups can become institutionalized these are outliers however. Council of canadians initially established as an anti-free trade group then become institutionalized. Determinants: access to government not just about networks to gov. , also about whether the gov. , of the day is sympathetic to your cause. Harper gov. even though there was an appetite.
