Pressure Groups Examples

Question 1

British Medical Association

Answer 1

• Promotes the medical and allied science, and to maintain the interests of the medical profession.
• Methods = regular withdrawal of labour for routine operations and treatments. Lobbies governments and campaigns.
• A sectional group with insider status
• Successful.

Question 2

CBI (The Confederation of British Industry)

Answer 2

• Promote business interests by lobbying and advising governments, networking with other businesses and creating intelligence.
• Sectional group with insider status.
• Successful - most consulted and listened to by the government, especially because of their strong economic power (pro-capitalist) as part of the banking industry.

Question 3

Fathers 4 Justice

Answer 3

• Seeks equal parenting, family law reform, and equal contact for divorced parents with children.
• Methods = campaigning techniques of protest stunts, with participants often dressed as comic superheroes, and frequently climbing public buildings, bridges, and monuments.
• Promotional Group and outsider status.
• Successful as fathers gained equal rights upon divorce.

Question 4

Extinction Rebellion

Answer 4

• Seeks govt action to avoid tipping points in the climate system, biodiversity loss, and the risk of social and ecological collapse.
• Methods = uses mass arrest as a tactic to waste police time and disrupt other people’s lives. They mass protest major areas of London - such as the motorways.
• Promotional Group with outsider status.
• Successful = kind of as they’re recognised by the govt but they don’t associate with them - created many large-scale distributions in London 2021.

Question 5

LIFE

Answer 5

• Provides an alternative to those having a crisis pregnancy and working by the principle of respect for the lives of all human beings, both born and unborn.
• Methods = opened 3 hospices, introduced sex and relationships education programme, provision of fertility treatment. Made a LIFE Housing department to coordinate closely with local authorities and social services.
  demonstrations. Marches
• Sectional Group with outsider status
• Not successful.

Question 6

Amnesty International

Answer 6

• Protecting human rights and drawing attention to human rights abuses. They campaign for compliance with international laws and standards.
• Methods = public demonstrations, letter-writing, campaigning, demonstrations and human rights education.
• Promotional Group and outsider status.
• Successful.

Question 7

Stonewall

Answer 7

• Repeal Section 28, end the ban on LGBT people in the armed forces, equalise the age of consent, extend adoption and IVF rights to same-sex couples, and introduce civil partnerships.
• Methods = campaigning and protests, providing information. Produced research reports in areas such as homophobic hate crime in football. Stonewall also holds a number of high-profile events.
• Sectional Group with insider status.
• Very successful - did achieve many outcomes to increase LGBTQIA+ rights, aided the government in reforming laws and became an easily recognisable charity in the UK.

Question 8

Leave E.U

Answer 8

• Supports the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the European Union in the June 2016 referendum.
• Methods = Campaigning - originally was one of the potential Leave Campaigns for the Government.
• Promotional Group with potentially insider, but later outsider status.
• Successful as the UK left the EU.