Factors leading to pressure group success
- Created by: JCarver
- Created on: 30-03-15 14:06
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- Factors leading to PG success
- Effective organisation and leadership
- Producers are easier to organise than consumers
- Wealth
- Corporate and trade groups are often the richest
- Money brings more lobbying, campaining, more attractive literature and website
- Large membership
- The larger the group's membership, the easier it is to claim it represents a large segment of society
- More members = more subscriptions and donations
- Populairity
- The more popular the issue, the more pressure the group can assert on govt
- Status and effectiveness of the opposition
- Anti-smoking groups have to oppose powerful and wealthy tobacco industry
- Stronger the opposition, stronger group has to be, to win the argument
- Achievability of the group's goal
- Planned Parenthood wants to keep abortion legal ;easier
- National Right to Life wants to ban all abortions; harder
- Effective organisation and leadership
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