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Communal groups
Embedded in the social fabric, in the same sense that membership is based on birth, rather than recruitment.
Communal groups
Founded on the basis of a shared heritage and traditional bonds and loyalties
Communal groups
Also continue to survive and exert influence in advanced industrial states
Institutional groups
Groups that are part of the machinery of government and attempt to exert influence in and through that machinery
Associational groups
Are formed by people who come together to pursue shared but limited, goals.
Associational groups
Characterized by voluntary action and there existence of common interests, aspirations, and attitudes.
Sectional groups
Exists to advance or protect the (usually material) interests of the members. They represent a section of the society. Functional or private IG.
Promotional groups
Advance shared values, ideals or principles. These causes are many and diverse. Cause-oriented interest groups.
Insider group
Familiarity with a particular sense of culture
Outsider group
Unfamiliarity with a particular sense of culture
Political culture
Institutional culture
Nature of Party System
Nature and style of public policy
What are the contributing factors of group influence?
public sympathy for the group and its goals
the size of its membership or activist base
its financial strength and organizational capabilities
its ability to use sanctions that in some way inconvenience or disrupt government
personal or institutional links it may have to political parties government
According to Heywood (2013), how do you exert group influence?
the bureaucracy
the assembly
the courts
political parties
the mass media
international organizations
What are the principal channels of group influence?
Social Movement
A particular form of collective behavior in which the motive to act springs largely from the attitudes and aspirations of members, typically acting within a loose organizational framework.
