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Examine the role of pressure groups in parliamentary democracy.

  • UPSC 2013
  • Politics and Society

In a parliamentary democracy the executive is drawn from and answerable to the legislature, and party discipline binds members. Pressure groups therefore work less on individual legislators (unlike in the American congressional system) and more on the cabinet, the civil service and parliamentary committees. Samuel E. Finer (Anonymous Empire, 1958) described British groups as an…

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