Pressure Groups

Question 1

What are pressure groups divided into depending on what they are supporting?

Answer 1

Cause and interest

Question 2

What is a cause group?

Answer 2

Supporting a particular cause either sectional or attitude

Question 3

What is an interest group?

Answer 3

Supports the interest of a certain business or industry

Question 4

How can they be divided depending on their relationship with the government?

Answer 4

Insider and outsider

Question 5

What is an insider?

Answer 5

A group which the government thinks may help in the decision making process

Question 6

What is an outsider?

Answer 6

A group which are either at odds with the governments views of an issue or are deliberately rejecting an insider status as they want to have a free hand to influence decisions

Question 7

Outsider groups tend to have views and objectives out with the ones of the government what does this cause?

Answer 7

A lack of close or special relationship with the government and unlikely to be consulted

Question 8

They lack any formal recognition so they attract though direction sectional what is an example of this?

Answer 8

Greenpeace reject any formal relationship instead of choosing to mobilise the public and media support they out pressure on the government to achieve their aims

Question 9

What is direct action used to do?

Answer 9

Attract the attention of the public and the media

Question 10

When is direct action normally used?

Answer 10

When other methods have failed

Question 11

What does direct action involve?

Answer 11

Protests, marches and possibly civil disobedience

Question 12

What is direct action used to do?

Answer 12

Raise public awareness or have a voice heard

Question 13

What happened throughout 2010/11 with the banks in Edinburgh?

Answer 13

Climate change protestors in Edinburgh resorted to direct action in response to the royal bank of Scotland’s investment in oil industry developments around the world

Question 14

What did they do to do busy carriage ways and buildings because of the banks?

Answer 14

Threw and oil-like substance onto a busy dual carriage way and at buildings Nd smashed windows

Question 15

Violent and illegal direct action drew criticism from student protestors during demonstrations about tuition fees in 2010 what happened?

Answer 15

It was good tempered apart from a minority who ruined it

Question 16

How do people contact their mps?

Answer 16

Write email or telephone

Question 17

How can this be effective?

Answer 17

Mps are up for re election every 5 years and are reliant in voters of their constituents

Question 18

Pressure group members can also attempt to influence mps who are members of select committees or the public bill committee how can they do it?

Answer 18

Do it themselves or they could emit a professional lobbyist to make contact with the mps and present the views on their behalf

Question 19

It has been claimed that professional lobbyists were used to what?

Answer 19

Pressurise mps over the decision to close RAF Kinloss and cancel the contract for the new Nimrod MRA4 aircraft

Question 20

When is contacting peers very influencial?

Answer 20

When the House of Lords is debating a bill that has come through the House of Commons

Question 21

What do pressure groups attempt to do to get them accepted by the House of Commons?

Answer 21

Court the support of the peers to amend bills and help them be accepted