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Distinguish between Political Parties and Pressure Groups.

  • UPSC 2014
  • Politics and Society

Giovanni Sartori (Parties and Party Systems, 1976) defined a political party as any group that presents candidates at elections under an official label and can place them in public office. A pressure group tries to influence those who hold office without seeking office itself. Both link society to the state, but they differ in aim,…

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