Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Types of
pressure group
- Interest/cause
- Interest
- Protect interests
of particular
section of society
- Exclusive
membership
- BMA
and NFU
- Cause
- Promote
particular
cause
- Broader
membership
- Three
sub-catergories
- Attitude cause group
- aim to change
peoples attitudes on
particular issue
- Greenpeace
- Political cause
group - aim to
achieve
political goals
- Charter 88
- Sectional cause
group - aim to protect
section of society
- NSPCC
- Difficult to limit
them to one
identification
- Insider/outsider
- Insider
- Core insiders - have
strong two-way
relationship with
government over
range of issues
- NFU and BMA
- Specialist insiders - more
narrow area of expertise
- WWF
- Peripheral insiders -
insider status but
rarely needed by
government
- Dogs
Trust
- Outsider
- Potential insiders -
outside due to their
cause or inexperience
- Outsider by
necessity -
those unlikely
to achieve high
status and must
work outside
- Fathers4Justice
- Ideological
outsiders - prefer to
remain outsiders
- Amnesty International