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Chapter seven: Interest groups, advocacy and policy making
- ‘Many interest groups are more in line with public preferences than commonly thought’
This LSE blog is full of graphs and data which you should be comfortable with analysing. Offering a cross-national comparison of the alignment of interest group position and public position, this data-based blog illustrates that interest group positions are congruent with public opinion more than 50% of the time. Interestingly, despite being thought to overpower, business interests are often in line with much of the public too.