Pressure Groups Case Studies

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Examples of Insider Pressure groups

BMA, TUs, NFU, Police federation

Examples of how these impact govt

NFU lobbied for an increase in threshold for inheritence tax in Reeves budget from 1mil to 2.4 mil. Police Fed got police convent establishment announced in queens speech 2019.

Examples of them not being listened to

2016 BMA went on strike fro junior doctors pay rise- and strikes about their contract.

Examples of outsider pressure groups

XR, Snowdrop campaign, CND, Just stop oil.

Examples of them being listened to

Sowdrop campaign- after dunblane massacre accrued x>700,000 signitures. Govt passed first firearms act 97- banning private ownership of handguns.

Examples of them not being listened to

XR wanted net zero by 2025- did not happen, JSO wanted no more use of oil in the UK- hasn’t happened

What could be considered success for a pressure group( not a case study but important)

Law or policy change, raising awareness, acheving aims.

Example of corporations influencing policy

David Cameron and greensill- tries to get into CCFF to let the company issue loans government insured

Examples of Corporations failing to influence policy

2020 2 % tax on digital sales- despite big companies such as Amazon attempting to lobby against it

What is the ‘revolving door’ and an example of it

When a politican becomes a businessmen or vise versa and has an understanding of how things work, as well as connection to the other side. E.g Nick Clegg now global affairs president facebook connnections can have legislation to advantage Facebook