Pressure groups and political culture a comparative study /

• Main Author: Castles, Francis G. 1943-
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2009.
• Series: Routledge revivals.
• Subjects: Pressure groups.; Political culture.; Economics.; POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Advocacy. > Political Process; Electronic books.
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This volume, first published in 1967, offers a new approach to the study of pressure groups, whose importance in the British political system has been increasingly recognised in recent years.€Francis Castles seeks to throw light on this topic, firstly by examining the theoretical approaches to an un...

Table of Contents:

• Pressure group theory and its problems
• The emergent nations
• Totalitarianism
• Continental Europe: the politics of immobility
• Scandinavia
• The Anglo-American system: the autonomous interest group
• Attitude groups in Britain
• Conclusion.