Intrest Groups Methods Flashcards
Party links and success insider status
USE US CONSTITUTION AS ANALYSIS COUNTER FOR NRA POINT
2019 Bright Blue linked with Conservatives and managed to get low carbon obligation on gas suppliers and NRA linked with Republicans in US managed to protect gun rights for us citezens in 2022 helped by Second amendment of us constitution where Americans apparently have right to keep and bear arms
Insider/outsider outsider double check fact
BLM despite being an outsider group, managed to get Derek Chauvin sentenced for 22.5 years for murdering George Floyd compared to in the U.K. Campaign for nuclear disarmament still no success after decades of campaigning
Size
Unite (insider status with opposition party Labour and spends millions to them) has 1.4m members U.K. and one of biggest in country In 2020 over £200 million was won for members and their families by Unite.
12.5m members in AFL-Cio USA Not much success despite Federal Minumum wage set to be raised to 15 dollars an hour, hard to find success suggests there hasn’t been much success
Size Biggest
China - All China federation of trade unions has over 300 million people but doesn’t protect workers as inequalities in China have got worse and conditions often not improve as unions often too scared to challenge employers
State controlled
Compare with above
Methods XR
Nice 2 way comparison for essay
• In Paris, XR activists scaled the Eiffel Tower and unfurled a banner in October 2020 France aim to be net zero by 2050
Germany- • Members in Germany blocked roads in Berlin in August 2021. Germany aims to become greenhouse gas neutral by 2045. So some success USE
Both extreme methods but different results
Methods Protesing
U.K. Outsider Group People’s Vote was set up in 2018 and in 2019 had a million people protesting in London for a second Brexit Referendum but it never happened. However a little success as letwin amendment passed on the day preventing a no deal Brexit if no deal made by October 31 which the group feared even more.
US Tens of millions of Americans attended BLM Protests in 2020 and man who killed George Floyd got 22.5 years in prison in 2021
Experts
Groups adavocating modest reforms within the established order are heard more sympathetically than those seeking radical change.” Jack Walker - Insider The flaw is the pluralist heaven is that the heavenly chorus sings with a strong upper-class accent. Elmer Schattschneider- Membership/Size say plurist about more involved Tim Farron says “XR by alienating the majority are making the climate catastrophe more likely”
LofA
Insider and Outsider Status most important as insider status allows you to work with government for change as outsider status makes it easier for you to be ignored
For an Evolve essay
Same knowledge but very clear analysis about did they do this before and if they did this today
Intent: Is the same
Use a bit of common sense
How to bring theories into success essay?
Elitist Theory
* social capital group-many groups have a say in a democracy leadingrepresentation - People’s Vote ignored so many don’t have a say * Elite theory-power dominated by a small group of people BRING THIS INTO INSIDER/PUTSIDE PARA as this is proof
