Pressure Groups and British Politics (Contemporary Political Studies)
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: March 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780312226480
Subjects: Contemporary Politics - Britain; Interest Groups; Current Affairs; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; Elections; Government (non-U.S.); Political; Political Process - General; Great Britain; Pressure groups
Description: "Two key themes of the book are how pressure groups affect the distribution of power and how they impact on democracy. It is argued that, particularly at European Union level, the balance of power has shifted too far towards big business, while a longer-term shift from the politics of production to the politics of collective consumption has weakened the influence of trade unions.

The author argues that pressure group politics offers little to the socially excluded and that this is unlikely to change despite current rhetoric."--BOOK JACKET.