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A new age of protest?

Recent years have witnessed the rise of a ‘new pressure group politics’ far removed from formal, mass-membership pressure groups. Paul Fairclough explores some of the factors that have contributed to this change and examines the extent to which more loosely organised campaign groups have come to play a more significant role in the UK political system

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