THE PRESSURE GROUPS

Abstract

Professor Finer, in Anonymous Empire, defines a lobby as: ‘the sum of organizations in so far as they are occupied at any point of time in trying to influence the policy of public bodies in their own chosen direction; though (unlike political parties) never themselves prepared to undertake the direct government of the country’ — to such formalized organizations can be added less formal pressure groups, which may or may not employ sanctions to achieve their chosen ends.

Citation

Beard, R. (1969), "THE PRESSURE GROUPS", Education + Training, Vol. 11 No. 5, pp. 172-173. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb016123