Many a times, pressure groups are either formed or led by one or the other top leaders of the political parties.For ex- Trade union, workers organisations are some pressure groups which either established or affliated to one or the other political parties. THeir leaders are either activists or leaders of the pressure groups.
Sometimes, political parties emerge out of the pressure groups. For ex= when the assam movement led by the students came to an end, it led to the formation of ASOM GANA PARISHED.The root parties like the DMK and the AIADMK in tamil nadu can be traced to a long-drawn social reform movement during the 1930s and the 1940s.
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these two parts show direct relationship among political parties and pressure groups.
In some cases, the relationship between the pressure groups are not so direct. They may take positions that are opposed to each other.Yet they are in dialogue and negotiation. The political parties arise issues that are taken up by the political parties.Most of the leadership in political parties come from pressure groups or movements....
The differences between political parties and pressure groups are s follows:-
a) A political party is a group of people who come together to contest elections and hold power in the government where as a pressure group is an organization formed when people with common occupation, interest, aspirations or opinions come together in order to achieve a common objective.
b)Political partiescontest elections and forms the government, they are accountable to the peoplebut pressure groups are not accountable to the people.
c)Political parties are formal, open and recognised part of the political system, the pressure groups are informal, closed and unorganised part
The objective of political parties is to attain power and form the government, whereas the aim of pressure groups is only to influence the decision-making of the government
a relationship between two political parties which help each other
The objective of political parties is to attain power and form the government, whereas the aim of pressure groups is only to influence the decision-making of the government
He deplored partisan politics and political parties.
A: Swift mocks the petty differences between the political parties.
should have no relationship with political parties.
bipartisanship
do not do it
Political Parties.
A political feature in a country refers to the system of government, the distribution of power among various branches and levels of government, the electoral process, political parties, and the relationship between the government and its citizens. It encompasses the organization and functioning of the political system within a country.
Interest groups focus on a specific policy where as political parties have a wider spectrum on their political agenda.
Political parties and pressure groups both have similar aims, to get a policy or piece of legislation blocked or passed, however pressure groups can do this through protest and sometimes illegal methods, such as the student protests against tuition fees. Also parties seek governmental power, whereas pressure groups do not seek power, however some may put up candidates as independents such as Richard Thomas Taylor, who was MP for Kidderminster for 9 years after his campaign to save the A&E there, in addition some pressure groups may be converting themselves into Political Parties such as UKIP. Parties adopt policies across a full range of government responsibility; Pressure groups usually focus on single issues or a cluster of issues, on a narrow scale, although some pressure groups such as trade unions develop a wide range of policies. Parties have to be accountable for their policies, Pressure Groups don't pressure groups should be accountable to their members. Finally parties must behave in a reasonable way, some pressure groups may act illegally or promote civil disobedience, some pressure groups work so closely with parties and government It is difficult to distinguish between the two, a prime example is the NFU
Jean Blondel has written: 'Cabinets in Western Europe' 'The political factors accounting for the relationship between governements and the parties which support them' 'Ministerial careers and the nature of parliamentary government' 'Voters, Parties and Leaders'