External influences on Exercise of Political Power

A pharmaceutical association meets a health ministry official before a drug-pricing rule is finalised, and an American gun-rights group spends heavily to keep a bill off the floor of Congress. Neither group holds office. Both shape what government actually decides. This topic is about that pressure from outside the formal machinery of the State.

In two minutes

Government decision-making does not happen in a vacuum; it is shaped from outside by interest groups pursuing their members' concerns and by lobbying, the organised technique through which they try to influence policy.

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