Question

tell me about 5 pressure groups

Answer 1

1. Sectional Pressure Groups

These are groups that try to preserve themselves or benefit themselves economically. Sectional groups act out of self-interest but readers should remember that this is not necessarily a bad or immoral thing to do: e.g. trade unions and employer’s organisations have historically been very useful in protecting people’s working rights and preventing tyranny.

Examples of sectional pressure groups include:

NUT - National Union of Teachers

IWW - The Union for All Workers

BMA - British Medical Association



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Greenpeace remains to be a very active and powerful transnational cause group. | Source

2. Cause or Promotional Pressure Groups

These groups act not out of economical self-benefit but for a particular cause that they feel is important to them: animal rights, the environment, starving children etc.

Examples:

Greenpeace,

WWF,

Amnesty International.

Anomalies

The Countryside Alliance, a pressure group that is trying to legalise fox hunting in the countryside, can be thought of as being both a cause group - because it uses justifications like farmers' losing their livestock - and sectional, because it is catering to a particular section of society - those who live in the countryside.

Then again, the latter statement could be challenged because although the law would mostly affect people who live in the countryside, a law legalising foxes would affect the entire country - not just a section.

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3. Local groups

These are groups that try and change something locally, such as preventing the destruction of a local natural beauty or the removal of a local children’s hospital.

A recent example is the temporary pressure group 'Save Lewisham Hospital' which managed not only to stop Lewisham Hospital from closing down but also offered the same privilege to its nearby and under-performing sister hospital. Despite major cuts to the funding of both hospitals, the result was widely regarded as a great success and a strong example of the strength of local pressure groups.



4. National Groups

These are groups that deal with issues on a national scale. Examples include the NUT - the National Union of Teachers - which promotes and protects the rights of education staff, and the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC)which works to protect children.

NUT - The greatest allergen to those opposing teacher's rights.



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5. Transnational Groups

Groups that are active in many nations. Known examples include: Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, Amnesty International and Oxfam.

Answer 2

1.Business groups-- FICCI, Cll, ASSOCHAM, AIMO, FIAFDA ETC.
2 . trade union.
3 . agrarian groups.
4 . student's organisations.