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Evaluate the nature and distinction of anomic and associational interest groups in the pressure politics of developing countries (200 words)

  • UPSC 2012
  • 15 marks
  • Politics of Representation and Participation

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Gabriel A. Almond and G. Bingham Powell (Comparative Politics: A Developmental Approach, 1966) sorted interest groups by organisation and relationship to the political system into institutional, associational, non-associational and anomic types. Its two poles, the anomic and the associational, show most clearly how pressure politics in developing societies differs from that in mature democracies.

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  • Nature of the two types
  • The distinction
  • Why the balance differs in developing countries
  • Evaluation
  • Conclusion
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