Author: Reese Bannister

Each Pressure Group is organised for securing and promoting the accepted common interest or interests of its members. Consequently, it is the basic function of each pressure group to secure its interests. However, for performing this function, each group has to act and react, and perform several functions.These groups, though non-partisan in character, participate in politics. These act to maintain the unity and solidarity of their members. They are involved in elections, though indirectly and only for securing their interests and not political power.They try to influence the rule-making, rule-application and rule-adjudication structures. Image Source: globalrec.org ADVERTISEMENTS: We can broadly study the functions and role of pressure groups under the following heads:(1) Interest groups and interest articulation,(2) Interest groups as agents of political socialisation, participation, political communication and recruitment, ADVERTISEMENTS:…

The term Civil Society is used to collectively refer to the voluntary organizations corporate bodies, socially active groups, and firms working in each society. “Civil Society is the set of intermediate associations which is neither the state nor the family, but which plays an active and positive role in social, economic, and cultural activities.” Civil Society includes all private organizations of the people. Press, professional associations of the people, Human Right Groups and Organizations of the people, voluntary social service organizations, and in fact, all NGOs constitute the Civil Society, Image Source: 3.bp.blogspot.com ADVERTISEMENTS: Civil Society works for discharging several economic, social, cultural, moral and other responsibilities which fall in the domain of private activities. It, however, serves the public purpose of securing general welfare and development.The concept of Civil…