Finance Capital and Pressure-Group Politics in Britain
- 1 October 1981
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in British Journal of Political Science
- Vol. 11 (4) , 381-404
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0007123400002714
Abstract
The rise of pressure-group politics in Britain has stimulated a corresponding growth of academic interest in pressure groups. Some distinguished early case studies were crowned in 1965 with Beer's majestic interpretation, while the last decade saw various accounts of the constitutional significance and merits of group activity. These bursts of academic energy illuminated parts of the pressure-group universe but left others in twilight. We are well informed about the lobbying activities of manufacturing industry, of organized labour and some of the professions. By contrast, there exists hardly any systematic discussion of how the interests of financial institutions are represented in government.Keywords
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