Pressure Groups

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Pressure Groups

A pressure group is an organisation with shared aims which seeks to influence policy through political means, without seeking political office itself.

Example Analysis | Supreme Court Ruling on Sex 2025

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More strike action by doctors

3rd June 2024
Rail ticket office closure U-Turn

2nd November 2023
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Starmer glitter bomb

12th October 2023
Just Stop Oil in the news again

6th October 2023
Is direct action counter-productive?

10th July 2023
Concerns about an end to peaceful protest

8th May 2023
Extinction Rebellion move away from direct action

5th May 2023
Pressure group success - the CBI

28th April 2023
Republic - anti-monarchy pressure group

13th March 2023
An end to radical direct action?

10th March 2023
Pressure Groups: Strike action by doctors

23rd February 2023
Sunak (and Starmer) court the CBI

25th November 2022
Direct action: helpful or harmful?

1st November 2022
Animal Rebellion - with videos

8th September 2022
Anti-monarchy protests and the debate over free speech

14th September 2022
Don't Pay UK - A New Pressure Group

9th August 2022
Pressure group success: rail strikes as a case study

19th July 2022
Immigration protests - a good example of direct action

16th June 2022
Abortion rights USA

3rd May 2022
Gun control USA

21st April 2022
Topical examples from the weekend's press and links to related past blogs

18th April 2022
Extinction Rebellion 2022

8th April 2022
TaxPayers' Alliance latest local government rich list

7th April 2022
Pressure groups: a tale of two issues

30th October 2021
Pressure group tactics spectacularly backfiring

22nd September 2021
Green New Deal Rising

20th September 2021
Another week, another example of direct action

14th September 2021
Re-evaluating success of Extinction Rebellion (XR)

8th September 2021
Pressure Group Activity - Focus on Direct Action

30th August 2021
Tax cuts for the rich increase their income, but there are no boons for wider society...

29th July 2021
Pupil Power: a good pressure group example

9th July 2021
A plug for BBC's Newsnight

25th May 2021
Direct action by pressure groups

12th April 2021
Links between ex-government ministers and business

9th April 2021
Judges and civil liberties - the Clapham Common case

24th March 2021
US Pressure Groups Free Resources

6th January 2017
Causal pressure group

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Direct action

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Minority party

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Insider pressure group

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Outsider pressure group

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Pluralism

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Pressure group

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Sectional group

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Social movements

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Civil liberties

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Lobbying

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European Parliament

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Unit 3 Essay Example: "Direct democracy is good in theory; however, it is often bad in practice. Discuss "

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Unit 4 Essay Advice: "“Lacking in effective leadership” Assess this claim about the US Congress"

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Clapham Common, peaceful protest and bad timing

16th March 2021
The Clapham Common vigil and pressure group activity

15th March 2021
The Stansted 15 case

5th February 2021
A good example of pressure group methods

3rd February 2021
Examples of direct action pressure group success are like London buses!

2nd February 2021
Another good example of direct action by pressure groups (with video clip)

27th January 2021
Direct action activity

15th January 2021
Pressure group theory and the case of Extinction Rebellion

6th October 2020
Pressure Groups - Clear The Deck Key Term Knowledge Activity

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Environmental pressure groups celebrate as Court of Appeal declares Heathrow third runway illegal

28th February 2020
Pressure groups - 'Double Agent' activity

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Pressure Groups in the UK "Concentration" Activity

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Pressure Groups "Match Up" Activity

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Think Tanks

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Non-participation

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Political disengagement in the UK

7th August 2017
Example Essay UK Politics - do pressure groups always undermine democracy?

16th May 2016
RSPCA to become less adversarial

16th May 2016
The National Rifle Association - the most influential pressure group in the world?

27th January 2016
Should Jeremy Corbyn leave 'Stop the War'

10th December 2015
What's the point of Party Conferences?

29th September 2015

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