How Pressure Groups Affect Policy Making

Question 1

INQUEST: why was the pressure group needed: how does the pressure group change: successes

Answer 1

INQUEST: is a group that is concerned about the state related deaths that are being covered up. For example People of die in police Custody. They have been involved with the review of the death of football fans in Hillsborough stadium tragedy of 1989

The talk to victims, politicians and victims families in order to unfold what the police are covering up

They have successfully campaigned to
1. Have the IPCC set up (independent police complaints commission) which investigated alleged police misconduct

2. They continue to campaign for a Hillsborough law which would make cover ups a misconduct or police failings on

Question 2

Protection against stalking: why was the pressure group needed: how does the pressure group change: successes

Question 3

What is a pressure group

Answer 3

Try to influence and pressure government policies in the interests of a particular cause.

They gain public support for change their campaign methods

They also persuade politicians who make the laws that change is needed