POL214Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Social Capital
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The term lobbying is used to refer to any organized attempt to influence the authorities. Commonly undertaken by pressure groups but could also be done by individuals, companies, or other political actors. Advocacy groups are assigned the primary task of interest articulation". Aim to influence the policymaking process and are benefited in this respect by the enhanced complexity of society. Poses and alternative set of values and expectations. By increasing the number of decision-making centres in the political system, federalism generally makes it easier for groups to block government action but harder to initiate new programs. Policy networks are sometimes seen as a narrower set of actors within the policy community with a higher level of interests in the policy field and with a more formal and frequent kind of interaction. Any organized attempt to influence authorities; government or decision-makers. Advocacy and lobbying is different from one another because lobbyists work for payment while.
