MCQ Pressure Groups

Causal

Outsider

Sectional

Insider

Promotional

Insider

Sectional

Outsider

A protester who is willing to use direct action in order to achieve their objective.

A pressure group worker whose job it is to raise funds for a pressure group so that it can achieve its objective.

A journalist who has special access to MPs and is know as a lobby correspondent.

Usually a former MP or political insider who sell his expertise to pressure groups to help their campaign.

True

False

True

False

Sectional

Causal

Pressure groups give voice to the minorities such as ethnic groups, the aged and disabled

Frequently pressure groups are undemocratic as they have no internal democracy such as elected leaders.

Pressure groups have an educative function.

Pressure groups are a method of holding decision makers to account

Some pressure groups have disproportionate influence giving them the “tyranny of the minority