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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Write short note: Pressure groups and economic development.

  • UPSC 1982
  • Politics and Society

Economic development redistributes gains and losses, so every development strategy creates organised winners and losers who press the state. Sociologists disagree on whether this pressure helps development, by making the state responsive and informed, or holds it back, by capturing resources for narrow interests.

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  • Pressure groups as obstacles
  • Pressure groups as agents of development
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