Skip to content

Course home

x
Sign up
x

What pressure groups are

What pressure groups are

Comparative schematic showing UK pressure groups with routes to ministers, civil servants, MPs, select committees, devolved governments, courts and media, and US interest groups with routes to Congress, congressional committees, president, federal agencies, courts, state governments and media

A pressure group is an organised body that tries to influence public policy without seeking to win government office itself. In the USA, the usual term is interest group, but the core idea is the same: organised influence from outside formal government.

Pressure groups Lesson

  1. A Level
  2. /Politics
  3. /Pressure groups

Step-by-step lessons on AQA A Level Politics Pressure groups. Each one builds up to exam-style questions. Start with UK government and political participation before moving on to the more abstract political ideologies and comparative/international content, which carry the heaviest evaluative demand.

Lessons