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Explain how pressure groups have been influencing public policy-making with suitable illustrations.

  • UPSC 2014
  • 20 marks
  • Party System

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For Arthur Bentley (The Process of Government, 1908), public policy is the resultant of group pressures acting on one another. Indian pressure groups shape that resultant by supplying information, mobilising numbers, litigating and trading electoral support. The Indian record shows which of these routes work, and for whom.

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