Pressure Groups: The Relationship Between Pressure Group Methods And Success

Question 1

What is an example of pressure groups reason for success being achievability of aims?

Answer 1

In 2000, protesters against raising the fuel duty succeeded in getting the government to drop the plans

Question 2

What is an example of pressure groups reason for success being insider status?

Answer 2

The 2019 Queen’s Speech of a Police Protections and Powers Bills and the establishment of a Police Covenant was in part due to prior lobbying by the Police Federation

Question 3

What is an example of pressure groups reason for success being in tune with government policy and ideology?

Answer 3

The incoming 1997 Labour government was generally much more positive about gay rights

Question 4

What is an example of pressure groups reason for success being in tune with public opinion?

Answer 4

The Firearms (Amendment) Act 1997 was after a mass school shooting calling for a public outcry with the Snowdrop Campaign

Question 5

What is an example of pressure groups reason for success being large membership?

Answer 5

The RSPB being quite popular

Question 6

What is an example of pressure groups reason for success being financial resources?

Answer 6

The Campaign for High Speed Rail hired Westbourne Communication to shift the debate to the economic benefits rather than economic impact of HS2

Question 7

What is an example of pressure groups reason for success being celebrity endorsement?

Answer 7

In 2020 Marcus Rashford led a successful campaign to secure free school meal vouchers for children in low-income families firing the government into 2 policy U-turns

Question 8

What is an example of pressure groups reason for success being media support?

Answer 8

With support of media and bestselling authors the Howard League for Penal Reform was able to get a ruling overturned by the High Court in December 2014 about the attempt by the home secretary to ban sending books to prisoners in English jails

Question 9

What are the factors in pressure group failure?

Answer 9

Objectives that are too extreme or unworkable in the current political climate
Lack of resources
Association with violence and disorder
Links to government
A hostile political climate
Strong countervailing forces