How do pressure groups make decisions

Question 1

How are key decisions made?

Answer 1

By a central committee, which is unelected.

Question 2

What did Neil McNaughton say about some pressure groups?

Answer 2

BMA and AA

Bad at consulting members over policy and direction

Question 3

What do many pressure groups reflect?

Answer 3

Elitism rather than pluralism

Question 4

What did employment and union legislation in the 1980’s do to sectional groups?

Answer 4

For example trade unions
More internally democratic
Requirement to hold ballots before national strike action

Question 5

How do Greenpeace have little internal democracy?

Answer 5

Strict bureaucratic internal structure
Small number of people control the organisation
Rank and file is excluded from all decisions