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UPSC 2021, 52 toppers answered it

"Pressure groups play a vital role in influencing public policy making in India." Explain how the business associations contribute to public policies.

AIR 17 Sanskriti Trivedy opened: Pressure Groups according to Finer are invisible empires which work behind the mainstream party politics to shape policy outcomes. R. Kothari also calls them non party forces of modernisation. Among the many types; Business…

AIR 6 Srishti Dabas opened: Pressure groups are the 'invisible empires', group of voluntary associations of people coming together to influence government policies and put forth their demands.

AIR 20 Arpit Chauhan opened: Pressure groups are the groups of people that seek to create pressure upon govt. & policymakers in order to get their demands fulfilled. They perform the important task of interest articulation in a democracy. Going by…

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