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What are pressure groups? Discuss their role in decision-making in democracy.

  • UPSC 2024
  • 10 marks
  • Politics and Society in India

A pressure group is an organised body that tries to influence public policy without seeking office itself. Arthur F. Bentley (The Process of Government, 1908) and David B. Truman (The Governmental Process, 1951) made the organised group, not the isolated voter, the unit of political analysis: democracy runs on a continuous traffic of group demand,…

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