What are the advantages and disadvantages of lobbying?

What are the benefits of lobbying?

Here are some pros to lobbying:

• It is a way of controlling the power of the majority.
• All groups should be consistent.
• Establishes relationships with elected officials
• It gives laymen a stronger voice in government.
• It's a way of offering solutions.
• It allows people to be politically active.
• It generates revenue that benefits others.

What are the disadvantages of pressure groups? Disadvantages

• Sectional and wealthy groups tend to have insider connections to Parliament and tend not to listen to the voices of smaller groups.
• Offensive views. Although there is a democratic right for freedom of expression, some pressure groups still hold offensive views that could cause tensions in the community.
• Opposition.
• Disobedience.

The same goes for lobbying.

Lobbying can have a significant influence on the political system. For example, a 2014 study found that special interest lobbying increased the power of elite groups and was a factor in shifting the nation's political structure towards an oligarchy where average citizens have "little to no independent influence".

Which of these is an advantage for interest groups?

- Interest groups have many advantages: they pressure the government to change; interest groups provide valuable resources, expertise and support on complex policy issues for politicians; and interest groups represent minority policy preferences.