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Pressure groups

What makes them successful?

Discussion of what makes pressure groups successful tends to focus on issues of ‘status’ and ‘access’. In this article Paul Fairclough assesses the relative importance of such factors alongside other variables. He aims to establish just why some UK pressure groups are more successful than others

Hacked Off promoted its petition in support of phone hacking victims and the Leveson recommendations by projecting the number of signatures on to the Houses of Parliament, 2 December 2012
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