Question
How do pressure groups and movement exerts influence on politics? Explain with examples.
Solution
Pressure groups and movements exert influence on politics in following ways:
(i) They try to gain public support and sympathy for their cause by carrying out information campaigns, organising meetings, filing petitions, etc.
(ii) They often organise protest activity like strikes or disrupting government programmes, in order to force the government take note of their demands.
(iii) Business Groups often employ professional lobbyist or sponsor expensive advertisements.
(iv) Some political parties grow out of movements. The issues raised by them often influence the policies of political parties.
(v) Most of the new leadership of political parties comes from the interest or movement groups.
