Significance of Interest Groups and Lobbyists to Democracy in Canada

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Significance of Interest Groups and Lobbyists
Introduction
Lobbyists and interests groups are terms that came into existences specifically as a result of the giant term, politics, which can simply be defined as an act of enticing and convincing a person to act in favor of a particular faction seeking precedence in a certain position (Cochrane, Dyck, and Blidook p.3). Although politics is witnessed in almost aspects of civil society, the concept is dominant in modern and ancient governments as social groups scramble for an opportunity to be in power. Once a certain group or faction ascends to power, it can act as it deems right with little or no regard for the losing faction (Cochrane, Dyck, and Blidook p.4).
The autonomy of the ruling parties may be oppressive or unpleasant to others and hence the emergence of interest groups who push for the establishment of favorable policies for common groups ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"4JJRImvF","properties":{"formattedCitation":"(Cochrane et al.)","plainCitation":"(Cochrane et al.)","dontUpdate":true,"noteIndex":0},"citationItems":[{"id":1139,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/IBolxqVE/items/3T3DNGGD"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/local/IBolxqVE/items/3T3DNGGD"],"itemData":{"id":1139,"type":"book","publisher":"Nelson Education","source":"Google Scholar","title":"Canadian politics: Critical approaches","title-short":"Canadian politics","author":[{"family":"Cochrane","given":"Christopher"},{"family":"Dyck","given":"Perry Rand"},{"family":"Blidook","given":"Kelly"}],"issued":{"date-parts":[["2015"]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} (Cochrane, Dyck, and Blidook p.7). Unlike political parties that take part in the contest for power ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"o3JOFw77","properties":{"formattedCitation":"(Cochrane et al.)","plainCitation":"(Cochrane et al.)","dontUpdate":true,"noteIndex":0},"citationItems":[{"id":1139,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/IBolxqVE/items/3T3DNGGD"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/local/IBolxqVE/items/3T3DNGGD"],"itemData":{"id":1139,"type":"book","publisher":"Nelson Education","source":"Google Scholar","title":"Canadian politics: Critical approaches","title-short":"Canadian politics","author":[{"family":"Cochrane","given":"Christopher"},{"family":"Dyck","given":"Perry Rand"},{"family":"Blidook","given":"Kelly"}],"issued":{"date-parts":[["2015"]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} (Cochrane, Dyck, and Blidook p.8), interest groups mainly focus on pressuring and influencing the policymakers to act in a certain manner, which they deem fit. One of the most common and probably the most effective strategy employed by interest groups to influence policymakers without being in the ballot is termed as lobbying ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"LUjqkyZj","properties":{"formattedCitation":"(Cochrane et al.)","plainCitation":"(Cochrane et al.)","dontUpdate":true,"noteIndex":0},"citationItems":[{"id":1139,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/IBolxqVE/items/3T3DNGGD"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/local/IBolxqVE/items/3T3DNGGD"],...