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Do pressure groups help democracy or undermine it?
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Do pressure groups help democracy or undermine it? There are many different types of pressure groups with different issues that they believe in and fight for. There is no direct answer to this question because I feel as though that there are pressure groups that help democracy and there are pressure groups that undermine it. The way in which pressure groups help democracy is by providing vital information for the government and information that they could use for making decisions about a particular issue that the pressure group has brought forward. This information provided to the government by the pressure groups is important because the government does not have the resources or the capabilities to go and do research about every issue that people have. Another way in which pressure groups help democracy is that they scrutinize the government and make them accountable for the decisions that they make. They can probably scrutinize...
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