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Pressure groups and movements exert influence on politics in the following ways: (i) Information campaigns, organising meeting, file petitions: Pressure groups carry out information campaigns, organise meetings and file petitions to attract public attention and gain support for their activities. They influence media to attract more attention to their issues. (ii) Protest activities: Pressure groups organise protest activities like strikes, demonstrations or disrupting government?s programmes. Such tactics are employed by workers organisations, employees? associations and most of the movement groups in order to force the government to take note of their demand. (iii) Lobbying: Business groups employ professional lobbyists or sponsor expensive advertisements. They participate in official bodies and committees that offer advise to the government. (iv) Take a political stand on major issues: Interest groups and movements do not directly take part in party politics but try to exert influence on political parties by taking a political stand on different issues. They have their own political ideology and political position on major issues. Thus, the pressure groups and the movements exert influence on politics in different ways in a democracy. (Any three)
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