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To what extent would such a claim truly reflect the relative importance of parties and pressure groups in communicating opinions in the 1990s?
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In the 1950s, R.T. McKenzie claimed "there can be no doubt that pressure groups, taken together, are a far more important channel of communication than parties for the transmission of political ideas from the mass of the citizenry to their rulers". To what extent would such a claim truly reflect the relative importance of parties and pressure groups in communicating opinions in the 1990s? McKenzie's argument about pressure groups being more important than political parties as channels of political communication can be proved by the membership of pressure groups and political parties in the 1990s. However, this is not to say that this statement is correct. On the one hand, pressure groups are important, as they are able to give the people a chance to voice their opinion on one specific issue. They are also able to exert considerable pressure on the government over a broad range of issues. On the other...
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