See Pressure Groups

Associations of individuals who share sharing a common goal and work to promote their common interest.

Voluntary associations of individuals sharing a common goal, for example to share information and learning.

A learning group composed of those interested in a specific interest of learning.

Coalitions of people who share a common interest the outcome of some political issue and who organize themselves to try to influence the outcome.

An organized body of individuals who share some goals and try to influence public policy to meet those goals.

Groups of businesses, associations and people with a common interest who lobby the Government to promote that interest. See lobbyist

Interest groups are advocacy groups -- groups of people who join together to work for a common cause. Environmental groups, groups defending human rights, and groups working for social causes are all interest groups.

collections of people with shared attitudes who are to some extent conscious of their identity as a group and the attitudes they hold in common. These groups seek to influence government in a variety of ways on the basis of these shared attitudes and thus require a concrete organization to carry out their purposes.

organization of people who share political, social or other goals; and agree to try to influence public policy to achieve those goals.