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Write short note: Role of pressure groups in democracy.

  • UPSC 2000
  • Politics and Society

Pressure groups are organised bodies that seek to influence public decisions without contesting for office. Gabriel A. Almond and G. Bingham Powell (Comparative Politics: A Developmental Approach, 1966) placed them at the input side of the political system. There they perform interest articulation, turning social demands into political claims that parties and governments must process.

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