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PSIR Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Do interest groups help to promote democracy or to undermine it? Give your opinion.

  • UPSC 2016
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  • Politics of Representation and Participation

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An interest group is a formally organised body that tries to shape public policy without contesting office. Whether it deepens or distorts democracy is the oldest quarrel in the study of participation: pluralists see group competition as democracy at work, their critics see it as inequality organised. My view is that groups promote democracy only…

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  • How interest groups promote democracy
  • How they undermine it
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