Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer
Explain how political parties and pressure groups are dialectically related to each other in terms of achieving their goals.
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- Works and Economic Life
Following Maurice Duverger (Political Parties, 1951), a political party seeks to win and exercise state power, while a pressure group seeks to influence power-holders without governing. Yet the two are bound in a dialectic: each needs, resists and at times turns into the other, and new political forms emerge from that tension.
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- Thesis: distinct goals, mutual dependence
- Antithesis: autonomy and counter-pressure
- Synthesis: each becomes the other
- Limits
- Conclusion
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